To hear my grandfather speak was to fall through time, back to around 180 BC when the Carni, a mountain-dwelling Celtic tribe, came down to the northern Italian Friuli plains to farm the land.
In the book there are wonderful scenes of her grandmother shocking the neighbors by picking and cooking dandelions in the yard when they were wartime emigres in Manchester. Got me foraging in my own hitherto ignored yard!
Intriguing story, beautifully told.
In the book there are wonderful scenes of her grandmother shocking the neighbors by picking and cooking dandelions in the yard when they were wartime emigres in Manchester. Got me foraging in my own hitherto ignored yard!