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Otherwise known as Dolci di Love


Violetta has a sixth sense when it comes to love which is why she is ‘spiritual leader’ of The Secret League of Widowed Darners, an all-but invisible army mending broken hearts in a hilltop town in Tuscany.

Then Lily Turner arrives fresh from the boardrooms of Manhattan. She’s just found out that her perfect husband has been having the children she could never have right there in Montevedova, with someone else, so she’s come to find him and chop him into tiny pieces.

With this Violetta’s sixth sense disappears, the perfect husband goes underground, a handsome Italian rides in on a white charger, Lily’s heart breaks yet again and in skips Francesca, a troubled six-year-old who just wants to make cantucci.

Suddenly, happiness is only a cookie-cutter away.

Selected Works

Fiction
Dolci di Love
When childless Lily Turner finds out her perfect husband has a secret family in Tuscany she goes there to find him and chop him into a thousand tiny pieces – but an underground league of Italian widows hell-bent on mending broken hearts has other plans.
On Top Of Everything
Florence Dowling believes rotten things happen in threes so when she loses her job and her husband in the space of a single day, she knows there's worse to come. *US readers see BOOKS page to find out about getting a copy of this book.
House of Daughters
US version of The House of Peine. Mathilde, Clementine and Sophie have nothing in common except the champagne that runs in their blood. But is that enough?
The House of Peine
Three estranged sisters battle it out among the vineyards of France when they inherit a failing Champagne House.
Eating With The Angels
Life turns sour for a high-falutin' restaurant critic when her romantic Venetian honeymoon turns into a nightmare.
By Bread Alone
“Witty, charming, faithfully passionate to its subject and emotionally adept. If only this book was a man.”
-Sunday Star Times
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers
“In the spirit of Chocolat...a tender love story told through the medium of cheese.”
-Publishers Weekly
Finding Tom Connor
“A cross between Bridget Jones’s Diary and Waking Ned Devine, this is a romantic and rollicking good read.”
-Next Magazine
Short Stories
Bosom Buddies
A collection of entertaining, powerful & thought-provoking short stories by some of the finest contemporary writers in New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Non-Fiction
The Modern Girl’s Guide to Life
A smorgasbord of columns from the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly’s favourite columnist.