Primavera, or the Time of Your Life

Primavera, or The Time of Your Life by Giulia Giuffre is an Australian-Italian memoir of childhood and family in the second half of the 20th century. The book is an exhilarating epic of domestic life that takes the reader from the rules for cooking pasta to the love that gives life meaning via chapters on food, language, reading, sex, ritual, birth and death, mothers, music and much more.