Only in Naples by Katherine Wilson Summary
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When Katherine Wilson moved to Naples, she never expected her mother-in-law's kitchen to become her classroom for life. Featured as Radio 4's Book of the Week, this memoir has inspired readers worldwide to book flights to Naples after experiencing Wilson's delicious cultural immersion.
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When a City Becomes Your Teacher
Have you ever felt like your life was waiting for you somewhere else? Naples wasn't just calling Katherine Wilson in 1996-it was shouting, gesturing wildly with both hands, and refusing to take no for an answer. She arrived on a packed Delta flight for a three-month internship at the U.S. Consulate, armed with collegiate curiosity and a secret she'd never shared: years of binge eating that left her cycling between starvation and shame. What she couldn't have known was that this chaotic, loud, unapologetically physical city would teach her something no therapist or diet plan ever could-how to actually live inside her own body. Naples doesn't whisper its lessons. It serves them on heaping plates of pasta, delivers them through slaps across the face when you're being ridiculous, and wraps them in the arms of a family that claims you before you even understand what's happening.
The Family That Chose Her
The Cure Hidden in Chaos
Cooking Without Measuring Spoons
The Language Beyond Words
Trust No One, Question Everything
Finding Home Between Two Worlds
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