___'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley,Spectator'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' - New York Times'A fascinating account of her linguistic exile' - Erica Wagner, Harper's Bazaar___In Other Words

is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession:...