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WINNER OF THE GROLLO RUZZENE FOUNDATION PRIZE
When Chris travelled from Sydney to Dublin, he never dreamed his life used to be about to change without end. There he meets Daniela – one L, smile as you say it to pronounce it accurately – and it is amore in the beginning sight. Before he can say si, he is uprooted to follow her to her sun-kissed place of birth of Andrano, Puglia, tucked in the heel of southern Italy.
The whitewashed houses, olive groves and cobblestone lanes are beautiful, but soon Chris is getting to grips with on a regular basis Italian life. There may be infuriating bureaucracy, an anarchic road system and – biggest challenge of all – Daniela’s mamma, who’s decided to convert him to the Catholic faith and build an extension on her house where the couple might live la dolce vita.