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Title: Snowball Oranges
Subtitle: One Mallorcan Winter
Author: Peter Kerr
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-04-08
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 17 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
It's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.
But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and experiences, and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners.
However, laughter is the best medicine when confronted with consuming a local dish of rats, the live-chicken-down-a-chimney technique of household maintenance, and attending a shotgun wedding. The colourful set of Mallorcan neighbours (including an eccentric old goatherd who eats worm-ridden oranges to improve his sex life) restores the family's faith in human nature and helps them adapt to a new and unexpectedly testing life in this deceptively simple idyll of rural Spain.
Critic Reviews:
"Peter Kerr writes with a combination of nice observation and gentle humour." (The Sunday Times)
"This should do for Spain what A Year in Provence did for France. (The Sunday Post Magazine)
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