Seize The Promise Authored By Lisa Clifford Format Brochure

of my favourite books and read it every year I came across this book when doing a writers retreat in Florence.
I enjoyed being swept up in the life everyday life the story created, I felt like I was being invited into a personal life and began to understand as I walked the streets of many mentioned locations that I could prefectly understand the feelings and the envelopment of the two cultures combining.
In all honesty, this book blew me away, I thought it may be a fluffy love story as it had been left in my apartment by a previous tenant.
. . but Clifford somehow managed to both sweep me up in her romance and yet conceal their intimacy at the same time.
I am the type who has always found real life can be more interesting than any fiction, The book also hit close to home for me as a fellow Australian living abroad, I thought it may be a cautionary tale about falling in love overseas and it many ways it was, . . but by the end of the book I was uplifted, I met Lisa Clifford in October and have to confess that I hadn't heard of her books before she joined us on a Tuscan Garden Tour This book is deservedly popular because you can so feel with the author as she balances her love of home in Australia with a

thriving career in radio and journalism, against her enduring love for a delightful Italian man who clearly adores her but can't help but think like an Italian! Not a stereotype Italian of course but nonetheless influenced by his upbringing to expect lunch as well as dinner on the table! So it is a bit of a cliffhanger as to how many times she can leave and still come back to open arms.
! The heart wants what the heart wants!! I love this book, I hope that their love for each other is still as strong as it was in the book, A beautiful love story!! I just loved this book, Such an interesting read, such an interesting path that her life took, . . I couldn't put it down, Led me to want to read more about Italy's history, This is the true story about a young Australian girl who goes to Florence by herself to live after high school.
She meets and falls in love with a local medical student and spends the nextyears falling in and out of love with Florence and fighting her relationship with him.
She struggles with what it would mean to marry an Italian and give up her homeland, It is well written, and I loved all of her details about cultural differences, especially in regards to relationships, Suprising observations about the relationship that Italians have with their food and their mothers, This book was given to me by a friend who lived in Florence for four years and became friends with the author.
I qute enjoyed this book, I found it hard to believe that a love affair like Lisa and Paolo's could survive all those years with the long separations and no contact it must have been meant to be.
It is unreal that neither of them managed to find anyone else, To think of those years when they could have been together instead they were separated but I can guess it was a big decision to make to stay on in Italy.
A wonderful true story of love between an Australian woman and an Italian man, and the never ending tug of yearning for home Australia versus living in Florence with the love of her life.
This book gives the reader an insight into the differences between cultures, and how two people manage to bridge the gap through acceptance and love.
A great story of culture and adjusting to life in Italy, Great book Very interesting autobiography, Thoroughly enjoyed it. Reading this book was a very special experience for me because I will be going to Florence for a writers retreat next month and will be working with Lisa Clifford the author personally! It was cool reading about how she met her love and adapted to the wonderful Italian culture, which is what I will do one it was like I was learning from her experience.
However, learning isn't always fun as there were moments where Clifford gave a lot of historical facts that some readers wouldn't care to know, but since I plan to make Italy my home, it didn't mind too much.
Reading this book has made me all the more excited to meet Clifford and immerse in the Italian culture, I know this is my final leaving because it's so different from my many other leavings, This time, I actually want Paolo to find someone else perhaps a lovely Florentine girl who he can marry, someone who will make him happy by giving him children and a family of his own.
He deserves it after waiting for more than a decade for me to make up my mind'Lisa Clifford was sixteen when she arrived in Florence for the first time, keen to experience life beyond her Australian conventschool and work out what she wanted to do with her future.
Falling in love with a local called Paolo was not part of the plan The Promise is the story of Lisa's love affair with Paolo, and of her love for Florence and the Tuscan mountains the landscapes, the people and the food.
But far from settling into a contented life in Italy, Lisa soon realised that being an independent and ambitious Australian girl made it difficult to fit in with the ageold traditions of an Italian family.
She was torn between her desire to stay with Paolo, and her need to return home to her family, to the relaxed Australian way of a life, and to a career.
Should she stay, or should she go Written with humour and passion, The Promise is about loss and heartache and growing up.
Above all, it is a story that proves love does find a way and that some promises are made to be broken.
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