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Urgent ;)! books set in Tuscany

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HippyKayYay · 28/05/2025 17:26

I’m on holiday in Tuscany and have just finished the Marriage Portrait, which I loved. I’ve got 2 days left of holiday (I don’t want it to end) and I need another atmospheric excellent Tuscan-set book as the other book I bought with me isn’t cutting the mustard. Any recommendations (not thrillers or murder mysteries!).

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Fairyflaps · 28/05/2025 17:29

Sarah Winman’s Still Life is set in Florence, and if a beautiful book about friendships and art.
Amanda Craig’s The Three Graces about 3 friends who have retired to Tuscany.

HippyKayYay · 28/05/2025 17:47

Thanks @Fairyflaps - I’ve read Still Life, but not the other one so will look that up x

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Debrathom · 28/05/2025 18:25

There's the classic EM Forster's Room with a View?

LIZS · 28/05/2025 18:36

And Where Angels Fear to Tread

needtobeloved · 28/05/2025 18:40

My Italian Bulldozer by Alexander McCall Smith

RareGoalsVerge · 28/05/2025 18:41

Summer’s Lease by John Mortimer.

Same author as wrote the Rumpole of the Bailey series. Very funny but many things go terribly wrong.

newrubylane · 28/05/2025 19:14

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. No idea if it's any good but I liked the film.

BingoBling · 28/05/2025 19:16

Sarah Dunant wrote 3 Italian set historical novels

The Birth of Venus was set in Florence

newrubylane · 28/05/2025 19:19

Also there might be some Santa Montefiore's that fit the bill. Usually an easy read.

User450877 · 28/05/2025 19:23

Perfume Paradiso by Janey Jones for a lovely evocation of the Italian countryside - I wish I was going this year!

ElizabethVonArnim · 28/05/2025 19:35

Love Falls by Esther Freud or Summer’s Lease by John Mortimer

RaininSummer · 28/05/2025 19:39

The house by the sea by Louise Douglas is good and set in Sicily.

WisePearlPoet · 28/05/2025 19:45

Fairyflaps · 28/05/2025 17:29

Sarah Winman’s Still Life is set in Florence, and if a beautiful book about friendships and art.
Amanda Craig’s The Three Graces about 3 friends who have retired to Tuscany.

I loved The Three Graces

JaninaDuszejko · 28/05/2025 20:50

Romola by George Eliot.
The Decameron by Boccaccio

AndSoFinally · 29/05/2025 17:11

I love The Evening Class by Maeve Binchy but it's only partially set in Italy

She is a bit twee for a lot of people though so may not be what you're looking for

CherryBlossomBreeze · 29/05/2025 17:23

Angela Petch has a few wartime novels set there that are very good, and Siobhan Daiko has a few that are also good reads.

OrangeBlossom28 · 29/05/2025 19:24

The Cypress Maze by Fiona Valpy is a great read.

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