Summer in Tuscany

by Elizabeth Adler

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Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a meddlesome mother. So when her mother receives a letter of a mysterious inheritance in Tuscany, Gemma sees her chance. She throws caution to the wind and the three leave for Italy. She hopes that a change of scenery will bring back the closeness she used to share with her daughter and give her mother something to worry about beyond Gemma's social life.

What they encounter in Tuscany is a crumbling old show more villa and a town divided. Half of the residents believe that Ben Raphael, another American, is the rightful inheritor of the villa. As cultures clash, gossip soars, and intrigue unfolds, Gemma is caught up in the most disturbing—and delicious—trouble she's ever had.

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11 reviews
Predictable romance story. I did enjoy the Italian scenery and lifestyle descriptions, the author excels in this area. I wanted a mindless read and that is what this book is.
Nice descriptions of the scenery and food in Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast, but otherwise, quite dreadful.
½
Adler writes fun romantic chick-lit. Improbable plots, but who cares. They are great for the beach or vacation anywhere
I tend to avoid romance novels. But the setting in this book sucked me in. I enjoyed the settings, the story was almost secondary. The story was good either way, I enjoyed the lack of random sex acts as in some lesser quality romance stories. Overall it was worth the couple hours of reading.
Mediocre at best. Very lousy sex scenes that were completely pointless to the plot. slow going. Very stereotypical in terms of assuming that women say make love. We don't we say sex. because that is what it is. I would give it 1.5 if that existed.
A fun book with wonderful descriptions. Decent character developments.
So-so romance about mother, daughter, grandmother finding love in Tuscany after being willed a Villa

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Canonical title
Summer in Tuscany
Original title
Summer in Tuscany
Epigraph
Tuscany...Vineyard-covered hills, silvery olive groves, fields of dazzling sunflowers, old pastel-colored villas and ancient stone villages, cool archways flashed with sunlight, and the village of Bella Piacere on the crest o... (show all)f the hill. Paradise...
Dedication
For Annabelle
First words
Let me tell you right from the start, you wouldn't want to know me.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I know someone has said this before, but life, her in Bella Piacere, is beautiful.

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, Romance, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
LCC
PR6051 .D56 .S86Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature1961-2000
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