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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
My favourite author; but a warning - you will be hungry! I have loved all the Annie Hawes novels, and was eagerly awaiting this one. It didn't disappoint - another charming read and can't wait for the next one. None of the characters from the previous books appear, but the formula is the same - entertaining stories about travel and food in an interesting foreign place - this time North Africa. As an aside, I brought this to read on a camping holiday in France, and the stories about North African food were so appealing that we cooked couscous and spicy... more info
Ho hum... I'm a great fan of Annie Hawes but found this book to be very disappointing. The opening section, describing her adolescence and brief imprisonment in Portugal, was riveting but after that it could have been any travel guide to N Africa. The narrative spark was missing and I found it strange after her 3 Italian volumes that her long-time Italian boyfriend merited just a single sentence. What happened to the relationship that she spent so much time in describing in the earlier books? Or did I miss it having... more info
A good read - by Rose S Brown Thoroughly enjoyable read. I find Annie Hawes impressive in the extreme in that she really knows her subject and her reader! I loved my travels with her but sadly missed the de Giglio family and all her Italian friends. I learned an awful lot about women of Islam and how they cope with the extremes of this religion. Annie presents a book which is humourous and yet holds the dignity of the way of life and customs of the land she travels in.
An intriguing voyage of discovery At the age of sixteen Annie Hawes was deported from Portugal and sent home to England. On the way, she was adopted by a family of Algerians heading for Paris, who came from Timimoun in Algeria, a date-farming oasis deep in the Sahara. Years later, when two friends ask her to join them on a trip through Morocco and Algeria, Annie decided to go, and to seek out her old friends from Timimoun; this book is the outcome. Annie Hawes writes in an engaging, confessional style - familiar to fans of her first book... more info
