Sun, sea, siesta and spaghetti…
May 11, 2009
Chris Harrison, author of HEAD OVER HEEL: Seduced by Southern Italy (Nicholas Brealey Publishing), has written of his affection for the dramatic swimming spot at Ponte Ciolo in Puglia, Italy in a piece on the Guardian website where he and several other authors have all written about their favourite 'lazy' places in the world.HEAD OVER HEEL is a delicious love story set in Southern Italy ('the heel of the boot'). On a trip to Dublin, Chris falls head over heels in love with Daniela, the Italian girl 'with eyes the colour of Guinness' - a girl who persuades him to leave his Australian life and follow her to Italy. Starting off in her small home town of Andrano on the coast of Puglia (an unspoilt region now becoming a sought-after tourist destination, often called 'the new Tuscany'), Chris takes the reader on a wonderfully vivid, tender, funny, and absurd journey, into the heart of Italy, taking in Sicily and Milan, and a host of poignant and memorable characters.
Read the full article here.
See Chris' bio page here.