The Spice NecklaceWhile sailing around the Caribbean, Ann Vanderhoof and her husband Steve track wild oregano eating goats in the cactus covered hills of the Dominican Republic, gather nutmegs on an old estate in Grenada, make searing hot pepper sauce in a Trinidadian kitchen, cram for a chocolate tasting test at the University of the West Indies, and sip moonshine straight out of hidden back country stills. Along the way, they are befriended by a collection of

with a cracking pace’ IRISH INDEPENDENT

Drawing from the musical concept of “temperament” as a way to achieve harmony

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‘A gorgeous read which left me longing to visit Japan’ Sarah

Amy has always looked up to her sister

This means the mind is the new frontier of endurance—and that the horizons of performance are much more elastic than we once thought

an elderly gardener who carries on his shoulders the sorrows of the world

or the public knows that the resolute Elizabeth won’t hesitate to use her keen eye

life and everything in-between

loses his balance and is electrocuted on the rails

his rodeo-riding daughter was big on Jane Parker—and secretly

This thoughtful book is divided into three parts