It shows a young woman rather wistfully seated in a mountain landscape next to a unicorn - the fabled beast is one of the heraldic emblems of the Farnese family.

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Norville's book is chockablock with helpful suggestions that are made all the more plausible and persuasive by stories of real-life people coping with horrific situations, including one woman who barely survived an attack by a mountain lion.

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He reviews his farming childhood, his happy marriage to a good woman called Rachel and his wartime service in Italy as a member of the 10th Mountain Brigade, as he encounters a series of lovers, drifters, loners, psychotic hunters and sick illegal immigrants all of whom have something to teach him.

ECONOMIST: Nostalgia fiction