When Annie Hawes buys a hillside cottage in Italy for no more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable young Englishwoman becomes a surprisingly incapable Ligurian signorina In the...

Englishwoman in Italy Annie Hawes isn't quite as baffled by Ligurian life as she was when she first came to this land of hills and olive groves. But she is as surprised—and, often,...

Aiming to track down a small oasis town deep in the Sahara, some of whose generous inhabitants came to her rescue on a black day in her adolescence, Annie Hawes leaves her home in the olive groves...