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A Boatful of Lemons: An Unforgettable Summer on the Amalfi Coast

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He took me to this little place where he always stayed, one of these smaller family owned places, Casa Cosenza. I would finish the book when we were only supposed to read the first chapter. So I loved reading and me and my mum together, we always talked about writing a book one day, and it was something that we both loved the idea of doing. We talked about maybe doing it separately or doing it together, but it was a dream that we both had. Then I remembered a book I’d read called Seven Eves. It was science fiction, and I don't normally read science fiction, but it was a fascinating book. It was about how one day the moon broke into pieces, and everybody was like, oh what happened, what happened, and then eventually a scientist comes along and says, we shouldn't be concentrating on what happened, we need to concentrate on what's going to happen next, what are the consequences are of this. So... You could read it and come here and find some of the locations, some of the characters even, and really get a feel of what it was like. So, that was my intention. And then the other one that we go to quite often is our nearest restaurant to home, the Ritrovo up in Montepertuso, which is a beautiful little restaurant in the little piazza up in the town square.

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They'll often come and sit down at the table with us and they have great food. We go there and they know us well, so we like the fact that we will go there and sit down and they won't even show us the menu, they'll just bring us food. They do these great platters with a bit of everything on them. So I might think to myself, okay, we've got all these vegetables now. I really should go into the kitchen and make something out of them. I look at what I have and say, I can make this and I can make that. So I go to the kitchen, got the phone on a little tripod. And everything takes double the time because you're moving the camera around and trying to film yourself chopping vegetables and cooking. Wendy Holloway: I think it takes a decade or more before you really feel that the new reality in Positano, or in Rome, or whatever Italian place it is gets into you and becomes more what's “you” than not. Wendy Holloway: You have a lot of discussion about food in the book. Are you a passionate cook or are you just passionate about food and thought you'd include things like a cooking class and some recipes that really make you drool when you read them? Wendy Holloway: I did look up the Bar Internazionale, which is kind of a classic historic bar. It’s been around forever.

And this is why I self published as well. I didn't want to go the route of sending it off to publishers and having people reject it. Wendy Holloway: I think whenever an author writes a book, even if it's fiction, you can't help but put yourself into it because you have your life of experiences, outlooks, and it has to come through in one way or another, in overt ways or very subtle ways and of course that's the case with you as well. A Boatful of Lemons is a perfect summer read and one I know I will read over and over because the writing is beautiful. An incredible debut novel by an author who has gained great popularity from blogging and a cookbook in the past. I can’t wait to see what she writes next! The book is set in 1986, the first year I came here. I wanted to write a lot of my experiences, a lot of the funny, quirky little things that happened to me over the years. And I wanted to bring them all together in one fictional story.

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Wendy Holloway: I read somewhere that even though you're married to an Italian, and you have a daughter, you still think about returning to England. I decided I wanted to write a story based in Positano and I wanted it to be fiction, but I wanted to include a lot of little things that happened to me over the years. I've been living here for 24 years. It's enough time to accumulate a lot of experiences. Wendy Holloway: And then for your editing, you airdrop onto your laptop and then next what's your process? November to March you can fully enjoy the area, tourist-free, although lots of restaurants and shops close for the winter.It's not often planned, we normally do it quite spontaneously. We only film with my phone, and we really don't have any special equipment. I didn't want them to have the power of making me feel bad about what I'd written, so I never even contemplated sending it to a publisher. It sat on my computer for two years before I decided to publish it. And something like 20,000 people watched it. So I thought maybe I should do more. I think it was around about 2011 that I started posting a little bit more, but I didn't really try to make a “thing” until about 2016/2017. So, yes, it has been a while! It takes a good few days to edit and choose the music and add the subtitles and put all the bits together. Sometimes there're bits missing and we have to go and re-film something or sometimes something doesn't make sense.

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So if you're doing it for the money, no, you need to find yourself a publisher who's going to publish it and get it out in the shops and everything. I gathered up all the people who were in Positano with me and said, “Come on! We're having lunch where this guy is going.” In fact, lunch at Ristorante Cambusa was amazing. I can remember everybody being so horrified by me and slowly, slowly people teaching me how to feed myself.

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Anyway, the consequence was the world was going to end and everybody had to figure out where to go and a load of them went up into space. And Seven Eves - I never really considered why was it called that until I'd finished it the book - is left with just seven women, and they're the only humans left, and they have to figure out how to become Eve and repopulate the human race. Time went on and Maria said, “Okay, it's getting late. Let's go up to the main road that winds through the town and we'll just sit at the bar and we'll wait for Maurizio.” A Boatful of Lemons takes place in Positano, the breathtaking cliffside village on Italy's Amalfi Coast. Although the book is a work of fiction it's interlaced with some of Positano's factual local characters, and historic bars and restaurants. I film the videos, I edit them myself. I love editing. That's my favorite part of everything that I do. I love getting all the bits of video onto my laptop and thinking what am I going to make out of this? What's it going to look like? And putting it all together. I love it. Wendy Holloway: About a decade ago I went to a fish shop in Positano and I was watching them load fish coming from the port into the shop, just the most gorgeous fish. And then at a certain point one of the people in the shop loaded up a ton of fish and put it on his shoulder to walk off somewhere. And I said, “Where are you going?” And he said, “Oh, I'm taking this to a restaurant.”

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