Helena Attlee The Fire in the Mountain Book Talk and Signing

Helena Attlee has worked in Italy for much of her life. She has developed an intimacy with the country that goes far beyond the clichés and the country has been the inspiration for many of her books. This talk will be about Helena’s latest book, A Fire in the Mountain, which is a luminous account of Sicilian history, geography, culture and cuisine, as seen from the slopes of Etna. For centuries, Mount Etna has sent lava to engulf the towns and villages, terraced fields, orchards, vineyards, and citrus groves that nestle across its slopes. But still it remains home to a quarter of Sicily’s population. Why? Because Etna has always rewarded her people after every eruption with a landscape of unparalleled fertility, richness and drama.