Getting To Manana

Miranda Innes

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Black Swan
15 June 2015

Travel writing

An English woman's life in southern Spain; of learning a new language, building a beautiful house and garden, and falling in love - all over again.

In 1996, former Country Living garden editor Miranda Innes decided to change her life completely.

Tired of urban living, bored of her career, out of love with her long-standing partner, she and her son spied a romantic ruin in Andalusia amid its own olive groves, and made an offer. What happened next - selling her London house, and handing in her notice at the magazine - was going to be straightforward, or so she thought. She had not counted on the sudden emergence of a New Man in her life, the plans of Arsenal football ground to purchase her back garden, a badly slipped disc and the logistics involved in moving a lifetime's possessions. Nor had she realised what a struggle re-building the house, room by room, or planting a garden in the hostile terrain of southern Spain would be. But helped by her new husband, Dan, and an assortment of eccentric locals, not least by the worldly wisdom of Juan the builder, she made it, and over the ensuing four years, the house and pool were built and the garden began to take shape.

This is the story of how Miranda got to manana, of her love affair with Spain, and a countryside where 'great jagged peaks range above little fields, white villages tumble like sugar cubes down the sides of hills, and white houses grow room by room in a puzzle of rectangles, topped by corrugated cinnamon-brown terracotta tiles moulded on a man's thigh'.

Illustrated throughout with line-drawings by Dan Pearce, Getting to Manana is a book to read and treasure.

By: Miranda Innes
Imprint: Black Swan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 252g
ISBN: 9781784160975
ISBN 10: 1784160970
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Former garden editor of Country Living, and sister of Jocasta Innes, Miranda Innes lives in Spain with her husband, Dan Pearce, and an assortment of dogs and cats. Her first book, an account of the restoration of her house and garden in Andalucia, Getting to Manana, is published in paperback by Black Swan.

Reviews for Getting To Manana

'If you like writing on houses, food and relationships, this smart little book has much to recommend it' * Daily Telegraph * 'A true love story, and a wholly enjoyable account of a life-changing move from England to Andalucia' -- Joanna Lumley 'A terrific read, lyrically descriptive and down to earth' * Choice * 'An inspiring read' * Glasgow Herald * 'A beautiful book' -- Susan Hampshire

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