Snippets from my book…
“Two ladies dressed in black with identical faces, their skin so covered in branching lines that they resembled rivers drawn on a map sat taking in the beautiful morning. They knew everything about everybody having lived in Civita their whole lives, more than seventy years. The steps of the church and their windows were their seats in the theatre of the square. Nothing escaped their attention. The smile of a girl falling in love, a frown from a husband whose dinner was not ready on time, the despair of an unrequited lover as he recited poetry to his bored girlfriend.”
“Ricardo, a tall bearded man with raven hair and dark eyes, strode along the road. Whistling, he ducked under the archway leading from a narrow side street into the square, passing plant pots that gleamed as the sunlight played over their vibrant colours. Lilac and magenta lobelia peeped out from beneath salmon and scarlet geraniums as he trod the worn flagstones – which bore witness to more than two hundred years of visitors – each one polishing and shaping the stone.”
Love, Life and Lemons 