A Summer in Tuscany

by Sandra J. Swanson

Release Date: February, 2000

Edition: Paperback

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We enjoyed this book before our trip to Italy

My husband and I were planning our first trip to Italy when I read a review of "A Summer in Tuscany" on Rick Steves web site. After reading several books about Italy, and the Tuscany region in particular, we decided that,for us, this was the book that painted the picture of Tuscany. We both read it, and several times during our trip we would say "this is just like Sandra said it was, in the Tuscany book". We even tried the fried anchovies..... I know, but they were great. We felt like a friend had spent a summer in Italy and told us all about it. We now wish we could find a book like this about France!

This author is no Frances Mayes -- likewise

We are grateful. It was a relief to find out that you don't have to buy a villa in Tuscany to live the good life! We have enough problems with our old house here. Our family is language impaired, as some say about all folks from the South, but seriously, this writer taught all of us, our children included, how to pronounce the names of the little towns and the Italian words and the phrases we needed to get by. We had never been to Italy before but with what we learned from this book when we got there we did just fine. Bravo! We love to say that now.