Travel Writing
Synopsis
Having moved with her family to rural Mallorca to escape the stresses of London life, PR consultant Anna Nicholas continues to commute back to her glitzy Mayfair agency to earn a crust. Meanwhile she is harbouring a bizarre dream to open a luxury cattery on the island – unbeknownst to her long suffering Scottish husband, Alan, and son, Oliver.
Life in the mountains is never uneventful as the author gets to grips with phantom sheep, midnight snail hunts, Catalan lessons, ghosts, floods and flighty hens. London also has its challenges, as she juggles eccentric, rich and often neurotic clients between Mayfair and Manhattan and is hotly pursued by lucrative deals. But increasingly Anna finds herself craving the simple life of her Spanish idyll because as she discovers, you can take the girl out of Mallorca, but you can’t take Mallorca out of the girl.
Wickedly irreverent, laugh out loud funny and lovingly observed, Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof celebrates the wonders of Mallorcan rural life.
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Featured on Radio Europe Mediterraneo (NOW KNOWN AS Talk Radio Europe) May 08 and August 08Featured in The Sunday Telegraph, 27th July 2008; The Daily Express, 22nd August 08; The...
Nicholas Parsons, actor, broadcaster & chairman
‘Anna Nicholas has a tremendous gift for descriptive writing.’
Lucia van der Post, author and journalist
‘Terrific!’
Peter Kerr, best selling Scottish travel writer
‘Witty, evocative and heart-warming. Another Mallorcan pearl from Anna Nicholas.’
St Christopher’s ezine, September 2008
‘a great read… a series of blissful, chapter long, escape windows from the daily rat race.’
‘In the follow-up to her first book… Life in the mountains is never uneventful.’
‘The adventure continues as Anna tackles phantom sheep, midnight snail hunts, ghosts, floods and rich neurotic clients in Mayfair and Manhattan.’
‘It’s the sort of book that makes one realise what’s important in life; friends… good food… ever-flowing wine… and the love of a family. A feel good book.’
Island Life Magazine September 2008
‘extremely funny’
The Anglo-Spanish Society Newsletter, Spring 2009
'The great pleasure of reading her account of this twin life, subtitled ‘Mayhem in Mayfair and Mallorca’, is her use of language, at once picturesque and humorous... an entertaining read...
The Scientific Exploration Society August 2008
'highly entertaining'
www.suite101.com 22nd August 2008
‘Anna Nicholas has produced an equally excellent sequel to A Lizard in my Luggage with Cat on a Hot Tiled Roof… This book bounces with life and enthusiasm from one...
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