The Olive Branch
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Narrated by:
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Rachel Atkins
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By:
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Jo Thomas
About this listen
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?
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- sue
- 02-06-15
Summer reading
Very predictable, and with a nice "taste" of Italy.
Definitely chick-lit but a good and pleasant read.
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- bodytone
- 31-07-15
Enjoyable
Good story , well read , funny and written from the heart, I liked the feel of what it's like to start a new life
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- neville
- 25-09-16
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).
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.
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- MRS VALERIE FITZGERALD
- 19-09-23
A lesson in Real Olive Oil
Jo Thomas teaches and teases us with this lovely book set in Italy. Her characterisation as always superb and the story absorbing. Excellent narration.
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- dk.bookworm
- 19-07-19
A wonderful Italian romance
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.
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- Ally
- 06-07-20
love love love
just the best
a little cheesy in parts (it is a love story after all)!
i couldn't stop listening
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- Hilde
- 04-09-18
narrator good, story okay
The book wasn't bad, but not great either. narrator was good, though the accent sounded Greek rather than Italian ;)
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- Mrs.
- 24-04-15
relaxing easy listen
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.
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- Claire Hirst
- 14-07-18
I fell in love
The setting, the people, the food; I was with them every step and felt a part of something magical. Lovely book.
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- Katie
- 09-09-18
Took a while to get into it.
Had to really push through the first part as the performance was quite monotone. Nice storyline overall.
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