Reviews - Continued

"I admire its ambition—indeed its audacity." Mary Cunnane

"It’s wonderful—I wish I had written all of that stuff down when my son was small!" Susan Murray-Smith

"It is literally chock full of charming anecdotes, wisdom and humour." Gaby Naher

"A lovely narrative… a book of celebration." Julie Pinkham

"Such an original journey…eclectic and deeply personal and charming." Collette Vella

"The architecture of the book comes to mind when I read of Wolfflin’s classic composition: a multiplicity of elements that form a whole…The author knows how to make the reader feel exhilaratingly at home (i.e. recognise their own home) in it." Joseph Falsone

"What delight! It really is an achievement - so well observed, textured, and beautifully written… As for that last chapter - so moving." Clive Faro

"This is a real cornucopia of a book, compiled with great love and affection. Moving back and forth between past and present, between Europe and Australia, it charts the delights, eccentricities, and everyday routines in the life of an Italo-Australian family through sharply recalled anecdotes, reminiscences, sayings, recipes, verses, domestic lore – and a feast of illustrations." Ian Donaldson
 
"A very fresh approach… wonderfully original.  Erudition and down-to-earth family life, nostalgia without sentimentality, humour and frankness, as well as rich descriptive detail—all these form a winning combination." Catherine Hammond

"Primavera is rich and impressive and daring and provocative." Ivor Indyk

"Primavera - that gorgeous thing - appealing, edifying, charming, provocative, and sui generis. I really see it as a memory book, a 'commonplace book', a pillowbook. That makes it a one off - the kind of book that everyone imagines of their life but that Giulia Giuffrè, uniquely, has done." Nicholas Jose

"The opening chapters have the dream-like power of Le Petit Prince." Mauro Medulla

"A beautiful literary style - I think gracile is the word - and it is bringing back so many memories of my own childhood." John Misto

"Thank you for the book. I have been reading it in bits and gusts. More in gusts than bits on reflection, though whether I am reading it too slowly or too fast I am not sure. I get the impression this is the kind of book which keeps its own internal time and could just as well be read over a week as over a year. More... Karl Eccleston

Giulia to Brett about their children, sighed out as she falls into bed at 1.00am after a particularly gruelling day of child- and house-work:
    I find them so funny.  
    At least they’re funny.
    Thank God they’re funny.

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