Thank you to everyone who entered the caption competition!
I enjoyed all your entries and would have loved to give a prize to everyone. I found it hard to choose a winner. Apparently I do not have a Simon Cowell streak in me.
But in the end I narrowed it down to two winners.
The first is Dave, with this:
He wins… I don’t know. What would you like to read, Dave? Look at the end of the blog post and take your pick!
And the second is Lena Sbeglia, with this:
She wins my newest book, the non-fiction history/anthropology book How to Protect Yourself against the Evil Eye.
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The Dangerously Truthful Diary of a Sicilian Housewife
This tells the story of an English woman who takes on parenthood, the Mafia and a Sicilian mother-in-law, all at once. It takes readers on an unpredictable journey of hilarity, reckless driving and dangerously large portions of spaghetti.
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Evil Eye
Entranced by the misty city of mosques, bazaars, and palaces, Celeste Hamilton’s dream adventure in Istanbul soon turns into a nightmare. A web of deceit pulls Celeste into shady back alleys along the ancient Bosphorus. Can she use her wits alone to save her life?
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Friends with Secrets
Caught between a Colombian drug cartel and the Soviet Mafia: What would you do? Two ordinary women, a teacher and a stockbroker, stumble upon a clash between criminal gangs. They unite forces as they fight for their lives in a tense thriller set in London and New York.
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Sicilian Card Games – An easy-to-follow guide
This book gives very clear instructions for twelve Sicilian card games, with photographic illustrations. It is the only book of Sicilian card games in print worldwide.
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How to Protect Yourself against the Evil Eye
An explanation of the intriguing beliefs about evil eye and how people around the world fend it off, from ancient times to the present day.
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The Dangerously Truthful Diary of a Sicilian Housewife 
I don’t iron often, willingly or well (what can I do? It’s against my religion), but I have never yet gotten so unfamiliar with the machinery that I’ve mistaken an iron for a phone.
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I’ll lend you my kiddo for a day, then it may become a regular habit!!
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It doesn’t defy the laws of gravity or anything, but it’s still beyond unlikely.
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Veronica, when I am in Sicily, is there somewhere where your books are stocked?
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Unfortunately not, but they’re available on Amazon.it and all the other European Amazon sites, as well as Amazon.com
They’re all available in paperback and Kindle format
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NOTHING WORSE THAN WRINKLED EARS
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Hi Veronica – I enjoyed being part of your competition. Thank you for that and just so you know my name is Angela Faia and my e-mail name is Lena Sbeglia (not Leba. I sent you the info on the Sicilian meet-up where I met Karen. My parents were both from the city of Palermo and I knew only Sicilian no English until I went to school. And now in my old age I’d like to recapture what I didn’t appreciate growing up. Regards, Angela
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Sorry about that – I am Queen of the Typos!
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I think a comment I just wrote went to another spot. But, I realized my mother’s dementia was getting much worse when she started answering her alarm clock rather than her telephone… Watch out, it could be the sauce!!!!
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LOL!
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Congratulations to the winners! The books will come to me with the next competition, I am sure.
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How to Protect Yourself Against the Evil Eye has arrived. Looking forward to reading it. Thanks!
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