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Synopsis
It’s crunch time for the Kerr family on their run-down little orange farm in Mallorca. After their first eventful year on the Spanish island, the honeymoon period is over for Peter, Ellie and their two sons, Sandy and Charlie. Will all the work they’ve invested in restoring their finca provide them with a decent living? Will Sandy go back to Scotland, and will young Charlie be seduced by Mallorca’s super-rich set?
Amid the spring ‘snowfall’ of Mallorcan almond blossom, they are helped, as ever, by an eccentric collection of friends and neighbours, none more colourful than Jock Burns, whose Hispano-Scots fiesta turns out to be a highlight of the Mallorcan social calendar.
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It doesn't seem almost three years since I reviewed Peter Kerr's engaging farming family history, Thistle Soup. That ended with Peter and family - wife Ellie, sons Sandy and Charlie...
If you've holidayed in Majorca before or wish you were there at this moment, this gently amusing tale will transport you to a familiar spot within just a few chapters....
Poetic the title may be, but this is Kerr in his usual gutsy style, continuing with the fourth in his series about starting a new life in rural Mallorca. Having...
Author Peter Kerr has led an extraordinary life. He share tales of interesting career choices and star-studded encounters with Living for Retirement. (An interview with Peter Kerr follows...)
Full of anecdotes to make the hardest person smile... Kerr's sense of humour remains irrepressible.
“Scotland’s top travel writer”
The Bookworm (Bookworld Espana), Summer 2007
"There have been numerous tales of naïve Brits venturing abroad but few went with the skills to tackle the task"
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