Love In Idleness Synopsis
At the Casa Luna, friends and relations of the Noble family gather for fortnight's holiday in the enchanted Italian hills.
Daniel, an American academic, is under pressure to marry Ellen, a witty and successful shoe designer. Hermani, doctor and single mother, is intrigued by Ivo - trickster, charmer, critic - the man Ellen most loathes in the world.
Polly, meanwhile, hopes her domineering mother-in-law will help transform her feral children and give her some much-needed time alone with her workaholic husband.
But the Casa Luna is a place where strange things happen, and anyone who lives there risks unexpected joys and sorrows...
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780349115856 |
| Publication date: |
29th April 2004 |
| Author: |
Amanda Craig |
| Publisher: |
Abacus an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
344 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Amanda Craig Press Reviews
The novel works brilliantly as a sharp and funny analysis of modern mores, a magical story of transformation - Independent on Sunday
The novel works brilliantly as a sharp and funny analysis of modern mores, a magical story of transformation - Independent on Sunday
Made me laugh out loud. I was completely captivated...and I could feel the Tuscan sunlight on my face throughout - Joanne Harris
Made me laugh out loud. I was completely captivated...and I could feel the Tuscan sunlight on my face throughout - Joanne Harris
Really charming and inspired - Alison Lurie
Really charming and inspired - Alison Lurie
This is a life-affirming read - take it on holiday, but leave the rest of the party at home - Bel Mooney, THE TIMES
[the] romantic complications, comic set pieces and heart-warming conclusion make this the most accomplished reinvention of Shakespeare's Dream since Peter Brook's influential RSC production in 1970 - Michael Arditti, DAILY MAIL
The novel works brilliantly as a sharp and funny analysis of modern mores, a magical story of transformation - and only after that a clever literary joke - Suzi Feay, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
An intelligent and satisfying romantic comedy. - WOMAN AND HOME
About Amanda Craig
Amanda Craig was born in 1959, and brought up in Italy and Britain. After reading English Literature at Clare College Cambridge, she worked in advertising and journalism before becoming a full-time novelist. She is the author of seven novels, Foreign Bodies (1990), A Private Place (1991) A Vicious Circle (1996), In a Dark Wood (2000) Love In Idleness (2003), Hearts And Minds (2009) and The Lie of the Land (2017). Often compared to Dickens, Trollope and Jane Austen, the Telegraph said "She has everything you look for in a major writer: wit, indignation, an ear for the telling phrase andan unflagging attention to all the individual choices by which we define ourselves." The Lie of the Land was chosen as a Book of the Year by siux national newspapers, was a YOU magazine Book Club choice and a Radio 4 Book At Bedtime. She is currently writing a new novel for Little, Brown to be published in 2020. She has two children, lives in London and contributes regularly to The Observer and The New Statesman.
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