We met at Pamela and Gordon’s and had an enjoyable evening discussing The Temptations of Gracie by Santa Montefiore. Set in the enchanting Italian countryside on a week-long cookery course, as well as looking back to the earlier secret years of the central character Gracie, the book incorporated themes of love, loss, guilt, reconciliation & the world of artistic forgery! It provided some enjoyable escapism and had a happy ending so matched Pamela’s description of a ‘summer read’!