Pasquale's Nose

A refreshing antidote to the saccharine charms of Peter Mayle''s A Year in Provence and Frances Mayes'' Under the Tuscan Sun, this is the quirky and hilarious memoir of a criminal lawyer who gives up his New York practise to spend a year in the Etruscan town of Sutri, near Rome, where he moves - reluctantly - with his artist wife and baby. Himself something of an eccentric from a bizarre Nebraska...