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Marcus of Umbria
Justine van der Leun
  • Published: 8 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9781605290997
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Marcus of Umbria

What an Italian Dog Taught an American Girl about Love

  • Justine van der Leun



Readers will delight in this tale of an urbanite who leaves her magazine job to move to Collelungo, Italy, population: 200. There, in the ancient city center of a historic Umbrian village, she sets up house with the enticing local gardener she met on vacation only weeks earlier. This impulsive decision launches an eye-opening series of misadventures when village life and romance turn out to be radically different from what she had imagined.

Love lost with the gardener is found instead with Marcus, an abandoned English pointer that she rescues. With Marcus by her side, Justine discovers the bliss and hardship of living in the countryside: herding sheep, tending to wild horses, picking olives with her adopted Italian family, and trying her best to learn the regional dialect. The result is a rich, comic, and unconventional portrait about learning to live and love in the most unexpected ways.

  • Published: 8 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9781605290997
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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