The book is set in 1986, the first year I came here. I wanted to write a lot of my experiences, a lot of the funny, quirky little things that happened to me over the years. And I wanted to bring them all together in one fictional story. I decided I wanted to write a story based in Positano and I wanted it to be fiction, but I wanted to include a lot of little things that happened to me over the years. I've been living here for 24 years. It's enough time to accumulate a lot of experiences.

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I can remember everybody being so horrified by me and slowly, slowly people teaching me how to feed myself. Wendy Holloway: I think it takes a decade or more before you really feel that the new reality in Positano, or in Rome, or whatever Italian place it is gets into you and becomes more what's “you” than not. Le recensioni dei clienti, comprese le valutazioni a stelle dei prodotti, aiutano i clienti ad avere maggiori informazioni sul prodotto e a decidere se è il prodotto giusto per loro. So I might think to myself, okay, we've got all these vegetables now. I really should go into the kitchen and make something out of them. I look at what I have and say, I can make this and I can make that. So I go to the kitchen, got the phone on a little tripod. And everything takes double the time because you're moving the camera around and trying to film yourself chopping vegetables and cooking.There are interesting personalities and lots of experiences building up to a very realistic ending. Wendy Holloway: I’ll share a little story with you. Before we were married, my husband took me to Positano in 1982 or 1983. We went there, driving along the Amalfi coast. It's so breathtaking.

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Wendy Holloway: I did look up the Bar Internazionale, which is kind of a classic historic bar. It’s been around forever. I love books that have crossovers with other characters or books that have places that you can actually look up on Google and find, and they're real. I wanted to make the book a little bit like a treasure hunt in a way for visitors to Positano. I've followed this author on YouTube (Positano Diaries) long before she had accumulated, thousands of followers. Wendy Holloway: One final question about the book title, A Boatful of Lemons. My feeling is that there was a scene with Francesco, the main love interest, on a boat and he has all these lemons that spill into the boat and it seemed to me that was the inspiration. It takes a good few days to edit and choose the music and add the subtitles and put all the bits together. Sometimes there're bits missing and we have to go and re-film something or sometimes something doesn't make sense.

I would finish the book when we were only supposed to read the first chapter. So I loved reading and me and my mum together, we always talked about writing a book one day, and it was something that we both loved the idea of doing. We talked about maybe doing it separately or doing it together, but it was a dream that we both had. November to March you can fully enjoy the area, tourist-free, although lots of restaurants and shops close for the winter. Wendy Holloway: I read somewhere that even though you're married to an Italian, and you have a daughter, you still think about returning to England.