Title: Begins well, ends in self-absorbed rumination
Product review: This book began as an entertaining description of a woman refurbishing an abandoned villa in Italy. The author brings alive the Tuscan countryside and makes one want to visit the area as soon as possible to revel in the sunshine. The book, however, could have been remarkably shortened if the author had kept her own fanciful ruminations about life out of the text. She seems to look down on the people around her, especially their religion, which is ironic since she takes D.H. Lawrence to task for being guilty of this same attitude of superiority in his book about Tuscany.
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