Chickens Eat Pasta - Clare Pendrick

I was asked to review this book with such an unusual title by the author. Fans of Carol Drinkwater’s Olive series will really enjoy this novel set in Umbria.

How many times do people just look at life and feel so bored and wish you could set up life somewhere else and this was exactly what the author did – 26 years old, her relationship of seven years falls apart, watches a video of chicken eating pasta and then flies to Italy where she buys a run down house and buys it – wow brave and at the same time my thoughts were life is too short so why not.

This could easily have failed but thus begin a journey to this fascinating place, the renovation of her new house and most of all the wonderful characters in this book.

The author has written a really beautiful book, a wonderful summer read on holiday.

I do hope that the author will embark on another and make this a series certainly up there with Carol Drinkwater.


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