“Chickens Eat Pasta is an amusing autobiography, featuring beautiful locations in Italy, and some very entertaining anecdotes.”
NO MAJOR SPOILERS
Clare Pedrick, sees an advertisement for property in Umbria, Italy. She is 26 years old, just out of a seven year relationship and bored with her life. Acting impulsively she flies out to Italy and is shown a ruin of a house which she buys there and then.
What follows is her journey to a new and hopefully better life.
Revolving around the little village of San Massano and the renovation of her house, we are transported to this rural delight, where the characters are larger-than-life, the scenery stunning and the food mouthwatering.