{ "item_title" : "The Woman Between Two Seas", "item_author" : [" Bárbara Marcuezos "], "item_description" : "The Woman Between Two SeasLearning to Live the Mediterranean LifeA witty, heartfelt memoir about what happens when a Hungarian woman packs up her life and moves to the Spanish coast.She had to build a new life in a single day. She arrived in forty-degree heat with a map that told her which country she was in, but not where. Her new life began in a Mercadona supermarket, with six slices of ham.Then came reality. A country where the taxi driver must sleep at three in the afternoon, the courier drops your parcel by the lift and vanishes, the repairman is the sacred cow of Spanish life, and the bill never, ever comes. Where bureaucracy has four levels, dinner starts when everyone in Hungary is already asleep, and a queue is not a queue. Where dogs don't walk, they travel, pensioners live better than we ever will, and a child is not a child but the centre of the universe.Here, ma ana (tomorrow) is not a time. It is a philosophy.In summer it's 48 degrees, the empire of beach umbrellas wakes before dawn, Spanish men arrive at the beach with spades and turn into civil engineers, and on the shores of the Mar Menor everyone smears themselves black with mud. In winter, at fourteen degrees, Spanish grandmothers dress as if for Everest, a half-naked Santa drinks beer on the beach at Christmas, and fake snow falls between the palm trees. And then there are the fiestas: Semana Santa (Holy Week), bonfires on the beach on Midsummer Night, twelve grapes at New Year, and a country that always finds a reason to celebrate.Hungary taught her to plan.Spain taught her to let go.And the sea taught her that sometimes you need both.Behind the laughter there is a quieter story too: about leaving and starting over, a daughter growing up between two languages, a lighthouse that shows the way, a road sign where an ending became a beginning - and the moment a foreign country quietly becomes home.This book does not preach. It does not rush. It simply sits down beside you and reminds you that life is not about hurrying, but about being present.A warm, wise, and wonderfully human book... Every chapter left me smiling, thinking, or both.- Goodreads reader reviewRevised and expanded edition with new chapters.Book One of The Woman Between Two Seas series. Followed by The Woman Between Two Seas - Two Lives.For readers who loved Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart, A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle and Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/824/722/9798247228622_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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