DEAR ALFONSO (HB)

Following the success of Dear Francesca and Dear Olivia, Mary Contini picks up the thread of her family story from 1934 in Pozzuoli, Naples, describing the commercial success of the family business - Edinburgh’s acclaimed Valvona & Crolla - and the Dolce Vita of parent’s generation. With her inimitable style she shares stories of exuberant family relationships, mouth-watering food and hilarious laughter, painting a vivid picture of life in wartime Italy and Scotland and the decades immediately after.