Chasing the Italian Dream by Jo Thomas
When we can’t travel anywhere, Jo Thomas provides yet another perfect 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 escape.
When the world seems to be out to get you, the one place you can find solace is with family and for Lucia that means escaping Wales for Southern Italy. The only problem is that the peace she hopes to find in the bosom of the family is shattered with the news that her ferociously traditional Nonno is retiring and selling his pizzeria.
Rocked to her core, Lucia tries to persuade him to let her become the first pizzaiola in the area, but he would rather give it to someone else in the family, someone that let her down when she needed him most.
One of the aspects I love most about Jo Thomas’s latest book is the female empowerment, taking on a male dominated industry but with the help of other women, women who were not given the same opportunities but who would have been more than capable of the task. I love how the men don’t even know it’s happening right in front of their eyes. Nonna, has to be one of my favourite characters.
It is the characters, which truly make this story, with you see Italian in the title, you’d be forgiven for thinking you would get long romantic descriptions of the countryside, the azure sky and the cerulean blue waters, there are some but it’s the wide array of characters that make this book so special.
My thanks to #Transworld and #Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review #ChasingTheItalianDream By Jo Thomas
Purchase Links:
Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/chasing-the-italian-dream/jo-thomas/9780552176866
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/chasing-the-italian-dream-jo-thomas/1139092221?ean=9781473573628
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/chasing-the-italian-dream
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