The Land Where Lemons Grow
Over
the last 10 years Helena Attlee has led numerous tours for
Boxwood. Helena is an established author and feature writer. Although
best known for her works on Italy and the cultural history of its gardens, she
has recently scrambled over the garden wall and made her escape into a wider
landscape, where research for The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit has seen her
travelling from a marmalade kitchen in the blood orange groves of eastern Sicily
to the cold and bloodied streets of Ivrea during the Battle of Oranges. The book
emerging from this journey combines history and economics with recipes, art and
poetry to take the reader on a journey through Italy’s cultural, moral and
political past.
The Land Where Lemons Grow has been selected as Radio 4 'Book of the Week' from Monday, 21 April.
There is still time to accompany Helena on the Gardens of the Italian Lakes tour at the beginning of June.
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