Thin Paths, Paperback/Julia Blackburn

A moving account of the history, landscape and people of a remote village high in the Ligurian mountains in Italy. Now in paperback, it was shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award. When Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the region, the people there began to tell them their personal stories. 'Impossible to forget... beautiful and deeply humane' }Sunday Times{