Anthony Capella's The Food of Love was a deliciously romantic novel and his second, The Wedding Officer, looks just as scrumtious.
Set in occupied Naples in 1944, it's the story of 22-year-old James Gould - the ‘Wedding Officer’, responsible for discouraging British soldiers from marrying the local women. When he becomes rather too good at his job, the local girls arrange for him to employ a girl called Livia Pertini as his cook, in the hopes that her cooking and beauty will civilise him. And then Vesuvius erupts, destroying Livia’s village...
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