Tuscany, August Patricia Wilson is preparing for the guests to arrive at her beautiful Tuscan villa for the summer creative writing course. For the pupils, it is a chance to write a novel that will, finally, be worthy of publication. For tutor, Jeremy, it is easy money, basking in admiration and trying not to think of his twenty year writers block. But Patricia has other worries. The summer school, complete with sumptuous food cooked by chef, Aldo, is expensive. Will she be able to keep the Casa della Luna going? And what about her teenage son Matt, who is running wild with the local Italian tearaways? On the steaming hot night of ferragosto, things come to a head. After seventy years of virginity, Mary finally succumbs to passion. Jeremy finds his authors voice again. Anna actually stands up to Cat and realises exactly who is the writer out of the two of them. Matt falls in love unexpectedly. The morning after, everything is back to normal. Except that Casa della Luna is safe and one of its residents is on their way to writing a bestseller.