Beyond The Orchard

Readers of Cornucopia are familiar with the writing of Azize Ethem form her Village Voices, her delightful diary of daily life in İznik, where she and her husband Selim have built a home on the shores of Lake Ascania. Her earlier articles described lie in their previous home in the village of Dereköy on the southern coast of Turkey, where they settled after first moving to Turkey from Saudi Arabia. Her new book, Beyond the Orchard, describes the trials and tribulations of building their house and starting a new life in tiny Turkish village, she, an expatriate Englishwoman, and he, an Ottoman prince form the imperial Osmanlı dynasty who had been exiled when the Turkish Republic was founded in 1923,