Bella Tuscany

Continuing Frances Mayes's account of her love affair with Italy <i>Bella Tuscany</i> presents the author now truly at home there meeting the challenges of learning a new language and touring regions outside Tuscany including castle towns fishing villages and islands. With fresh adventures and updates on the characters introduced in <i>Under the Tuscan Sun</i> Mayes also explores new themes in this wondrous corner of the world delving into gardening wine-making and the experience of primavera - a season of renewed possibility. And Mayes reveals more simple pleasures from her Tuscan kitchen in a section devoted to recipes. In the sensuous vivid prose that has become her hallmark <i>Bella Tuscany</i> celebrates Mayes's deepening connection to the land and her flourishing friendships in a newfound haven of idyllic living.