(Book #1 in the Snowball Oranges Series)
Conditions
A read copy, but remains in excellent condition.
Conditions
A read copy, but remains in excellent condition.
"This award-winning book, first published in 2000, launched the best-selling series of five books charting the Kerr family's often-hilarious adventures after leaving Scotland in the 1980s to grow oranges for a living on the Spanish island of Mallorca."
It's the stuff of dreams, but when they turn out to be not quite as intended, laughter is the best medicine.
"Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca,"beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and Snowball Oranges.
Full of life and colour, joyful and revealing, and set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Mallorca.
(The subsequent titles in this series are 'One Mallorcan Summer [previously published as Ma?ana, Ma?ana'], 'Viva Mallorca!', 'A Basketful of Snowflakes' and 'From Paella to Porridge'. 'Thistle Soup' is a set-in-Scotland prequel to the series).
This description may be from another edition of this product.I bought this book at LA Airport just before flying to the UK, and I have to say that reading it made short of the long journey. I read it in one go, and my outbursts of snickering and laughing must have had my fellow travellers wondering if I was a few oranges short of the pound. This book is unique in the travel genre in that the writer has a wonderful ability to tell his story as though it were a novel instead of just a travelogue. His sharply-observed portrayal of rural Majorcan characters and his vivid descriptions of the island's scenery and cuisine are so realistic that you can almost feel the sunshine, taste the food and smell the orange blossom. I enjoyed the book so much that I bought the sequel, 'Manana, Manana', as soon as I arrived in the UK, and it lived up to my expectations and more. Next day I booked my first vacation to Majorca, and I can't wait to visit the places so graphically depicted in these books. You can bet I'll be first in line to buy the third in the series whenever it's published. Estupendo, Don Pedro!
