Publisher's Synopsis
Spilsbury's stories about a farming community in the olive hills outside Rome bring to life an ancient world where foreigners and locals have always lived, often in completely separate spheres. The unique culture of the place and its inhabitants, steeped in the historic rivalries and social hierarchies of Italy's medieval hilltowns, finds vivid protrayal in these stories set to the four seasons that have dominated the activity of daily life for centuries.
