Bella Tuscany Audiobook (Free)

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 NY Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sunlight made the globe fall in love with Tuscany, invites visitors back for a delightful year of a friendly relationship, festivity, and meals, there and throughout Italy.

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to see the pleasures of primavera, an Italian spring. A sabbatical from teaching in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA allowed her to come back to Cortona- about Bella Tuscany and her beloved home, Bramasole-just as the 1st green appeared over the rocky hillsides.

Bella Tuscany, a companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sunlight, is her passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. Right now truly at home there, Mayes writes of her deepening link with the property, her flourishing friendships with local people, the joys of artwork, food, and wine, and the benefits and periodic heartbreaks of her villa’s ongoing recovery. Additionally it is a memoir of the season of switch, and of restored possibility. As spring becomes summer season she revives Bramasole’s lush landscapes, meets the problems of learning a fresh language, tours locations from Sicily towards the Veneto, and encounters transitions in her family life.

Filled up with recipes from her Tuscan kitchen and written in the sensuous and evocative prose that has been her hallmark, Bella Tuscany is usually a celebration from the sweet life in Italy.