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The Olive Branch

By: Jo Thomas
Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
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Escape to Italy with The Olive Branch. The irresistibly romantic new novel from Jo Thomas, award-winning author of e-book runaway best-seller The Oyster Catcher.

It's amazing what you can buy online these days: memorabilia, fashion accessories, a crumbling Italian farmhouse...

After a Prosecco-fuelled girls' night in gets out of hand, Ruthie Collins awakes to discover that she has bid for her dream Italian home online - and won. Recently out of a relationship, a new start is just what she needs. Anything is better than sleeping on her mum's settee.

But arriving in Southern Italy, Ruthie doesn't know the first thing about running an olive farm. And with new neighbours - the tempestuous Marco Bellanouvo and his fiery family - to contend with, all Ruthie wants is to go back home.

Life can change with the click of a mouse. But all good things - friendship, romance, and even the olive harvest - take time to grow. Can Ruthie finally put the past to rest and find her own piece of the Dolce Vita along the way?

©2015 Jo Thomas (P)2015 Headline Digital Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Romance Romantic Comedy Women's Fiction Italy Comedy Feel-Good

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Very predictable, and with a nice "taste" of Italy.
Definitely chick-lit but a good and pleasant read.

Summer reading

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Good story , well read , funny and written from the heart, I liked the feel of what it's like to start a new life

Enjoyable

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That's s us a story of escaping to Italy to try and make a new start. I would think mainly appeals to women. Light hearted and entertaining.

Worth a listen. It is a light hearted story of escapism to try a new life (which I am sure we have all thought about).

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Jo Thomas teaches and teases us with this lovely book set in Italy. Her characterisation as always superb and the story absorbing. Excellent narration.

A lesson in Real Olive Oil

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I really loved listening to this audiobook, yes the storyline was a bit predictable, but it was told in such a lovely way , she had me yearning for the italian food, wanting to visit a little Italian village and wanting to taste the olive oil( of which I’m not really a fan)
By the time the story was coming to a close, I was wishing it would never end.

A wonderful Italian romance

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just the best
a little cheesy in parts (it is a love story after all)!
i couldn't stop listening

love love love

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The book wasn't bad, but not great either. narrator was good, though the accent sounded Greek rather than Italian ;)

narrator good, story okay

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What did you like most about The Olive Branch?

eventually quite like the characters and the gentle story

Would you be willing to try another book from Jo Thomas? Why or why not?

yes.

Did Rachel Atkins do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?

yes

Any additional comments?

Enjoyable and quite easy to draw pictures of the landscape in ones mind.

relaxing easy listen

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The setting, the people, the food; I was with them every step and felt a part of something magical. Lovely book.

I fell in love

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Had to really push through the first part as the performance was quite monotone. Nice storyline overall.

Took a while to get into it.

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