A Year at Hotel Gondola

The Top 10 bestseller - a woman swaps her far-flung travels for her biggest adventure yet: a relationship

Kat has never wanted to live a small, everyday sort of life. She's a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual fare. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet - a relationship. She has fallen in love with an Italian man and is moving to live with him in Venice where she will help him run his small guesthouse, Hotel Gondola. Kat has lined up a book deal and will write about the first year of her new adventure: the food she eats, the recipes she collects, the people she meets, and the man she doesn't really know all that well but with whom she is going to make a life.

Still, as Kat ought to know by now, the whole point of adventures is they never go exactly the way you expect them to.

Praise for Nicky Pellegrino

'A novel about the joy of learning to live again. It also made me very hungry' - JOJO MOYES

'Full bodied-as a rich Italian red, it's a page-turner combining the missed chances of Captain Corelli's Mandolin with the foodie pleasure of Chocolat' - Eve

'A slice of pure sunshine' - Good Housekeeping

'A lovely read ... with a genuine heart and true observation' - ELIZABETH BUCHAN

'A touching story about one woman's search for love' - Sunday Express

'Set against a backdrop of love, friendship and food ... the descriptions of Italian food will make your mouth water' - Cosmopolitan

'Sink back on the sofa with this delightful read' - Now Magazine