SNOWBALL ORANGES - One Mallorcan Winter
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ISBN: 978-1399946612
This award-winning book, first published in 2000, launched the best-selling series charting the Kerr family's often-hilarious adventures after leaving Scotland to grow oranges for a living on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
“Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca,” beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and Snowball Oranges.
Full of life and colour, hilarious and revealing, and set against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Mallorca.
(The subsequent titles in this series are 'Manana, Manana', 'Viva Mallorca!', 'A Basketful of Snowflakes' and 'From Paella to Porridge'. 'Thistle Soup' is the set-in-Scotland prequel to 'Snowball Oranges')
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Published March 2007 (Hardback)
REVIEWS
"Gives a very detailed feel of the place ... if you ever visit (Mallorca)
you'll recognise so much of what's written."
Goodreads.com
"Peter Kerr's 2000 'flit-lit' classic (is) as bright in tone as the primary colours
of its new cover."
Telegraph.co.uk (2010)
“With prose as elegant as this, Snowball Oranges is one travel book that
needs no illustrations. In fact it reads more like a novel, brimming with charming
characters and good humour ... By the time you reach the last page, you feel
as though you are in the Mediterranean ... and you don't want to go home”
Amazon.co.uk Review
"Hilarious and revealing ... full of life and colour ... a haven of Mediterranean sunshine."
sixtyplusurfers.co.uk - May 2010
“This should do for Spain what A Year in Provence did for France ... Graphic
descriptions of mouthwatering local delicacies and breathtaking scenery should
ensure a thriving tourist trade for years to come”
Sunday Post Magazine
"Peter's fruity tale still has plenty of juice left ... a hilarious personal account."
East Lothian Courier - April 2010
“Peter Kerr writes with a combination of nice observation and gentle humour”
Sunday Times
“an affectionate and amusing tale on Majorca and its inhabitants”
Sunday Express
“engagingly written and performs the crucial task of bringing the sights,
sounds and smells of its locale vividly to life for its damp, chilly, wistful
readers ... Kerr always sees the funny side ...”
The Scotsman
“Culture shock, trials and tribulations, moving moments, sentiments, not to
mention an insight into the human condition - Spanish style ... this story
is carried effortlessly through on an entertaining raft of humour”
The Scottish
Farmer
“Beautifully written”
Adventure-mag.com
“Immensely engaging and amusing”
Alternative Mallorca
“had me laughing out loud on my way to work”
Family Circle
“a real delight with appeal to travel enthusiasts and potential expats alike
... For anyone heading out to the island in the near future, Snowball Oranges
is almost as good as going there!”
World of Property Magazine
“Fabulously evocative”
Spanish Homes Magazine
“Entertaining and never hard work ... a story in which humour, often raucous,
is a significant ingredient ... with finely-observed and evocative - indeed
poetic - descriptions of the island, its sights, sounds and aromas”
TOP Magazine
“well written and informative ... a treat to read”
Anglo-Spanish Society Review
"This charming, cheerful book will appeal to anyone looking for a different take
on Spain and Majorca"
Library Journal (USA)
"Readers will relish Kerr's adept account of the agricultural and social customs of the island and generous insights into one couple's bold transplanting of their lives"
Booklist (USA)
"Absolutely fantastic! I haven't laughed so much for a long while."
WH Smith Reviewer, Kathy Williams
"Vividly described ... made me laugh out loud ... you just can't put it down."
North West Murcia Gazette
© Peter Kerr 2006
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