A Boatful of Lemons: An Unforgettable Summer on the Amalfi Coast

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It takes a good few days to edit and choose the music and add the subtitles and put all the bits together. Sometimes there're bits missing and we have to go and re-film something or sometimes something doesn't make sense. And then the other one that we go to quite often is our nearest restaurant to home, the Ritrovo up in Montepertuso, which is a beautiful little restaurant in the little piazza up in the town square. Wendy Holloway: I have just one last question about your YouTube channel, Positano Diaries, which I absolutely love.

A Boatful of Lemons: An Unforgettable Summer on the Amalfi

So if you're doing it for the money, no, you need to find yourself a publisher who's going to publish it and get it out in the shops and everything. Wendy Holloway: About a decade ago I went to a fish shop in Positano and I was watching them load fish coming from the port into the shop, just the most gorgeous fish. And then at a certain point one of the people in the shop loaded up a ton of fish and put it on his shoulder to walk off somewhere. And I said, “Where are you going?” And he said, “Oh, I'm taking this to a restaurant.” Then I remembered a book I’d read called Seven Eves. It was science fiction, and I don't normally read science fiction, but it was a fascinating book. It was about how one day the moon broke into pieces, and everybody was like, oh what happened, what happened, and then eventually a scientist comes along and says, we shouldn't be concentrating on what happened, we need to concentrate on what's going to happen next, what are the consequences are of this.Wendy Holloway: I’ll share a little story with you. Before we were married, my husband took me to Positano in 1982 or 1983. We went there, driving along the Amalfi coast. It's so breathtaking. I didn't want them to have the power of making me feel bad about what I'd written, so I never even contemplated sending it to a publisher. It sat on my computer for two years before I decided to publish it. I've followed this author on YouTube (Positano Diaries) long before she had accumulated, thousands of followers. Being a bit of a book snob; tending towards classics and cultural literature, I was slightly reluctant to buy her book, for although wonderful at vlogging, I was skeptical about her abilities as a writer (mainly due to her self publishing)

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I love it now. It's something I do quite happily. And I love the fact that I can make food from what we have in our garden, which is a huge thing for us nowadays. A Boatful of Lemons is a perfect summer read and one I know I will read over and over because the writing is beautiful. An incredible debut novel by an author who has gained great popularity from blogging and a cookbook in the past. I can’t wait to see what she writes next! The book is set in 1986, the first year I came here. I wanted to write a lot of my experiences, a lot of the funny, quirky little things that happened to me over the years. And I wanted to bring them all together in one fictional story. Wendy Holloway: I did look up the Bar Internazionale, which is kind of a classic historic bar. It’s been around forever. When I got a job in 2001 working in a hotel as the hostess in a restaurant the chef would bit by bit teach me how to make little things like certain pasta sauces and how to cook fish and things like that. Gradually over time I learned from people in shops and people in hotels and people's grandmothers when I went to their houses.And this is why I self published as well. I didn't want to go the route of sending it off to publishers and having people reject it. I love books that have crossovers with other characters or books that have places that you can actually look up on Google and find, and they're real. I wanted to make the book a little bit like a treasure hunt in a way for visitors to Positano. I would finish the book when we were only supposed to read the first chapter. So I loved reading and me and my mum together, we always talked about writing a book one day, and it was something that we both loved the idea of doing. We talked about maybe doing it separately or doing it together, but it was a dream that we both had.