{"product_id":"2940170542437","title":"Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter","description":"\"Look! The weather has come from Scotland to welcome you to Mallorca,\" beamed Senor Ferrer. To our new neighbour's delight and my dismay, a cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our newly acquired paradise in the sun into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's the stuff of dreams. A Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and experiences, and it isn't long before they realise that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, laughter is the best medicine when confronted with consuming a local dish of rats, the live-chicken-down-a-chimney technique of household maintenance, and attending a shotgun wedding. The colourful set of Mallorcan neighbours (including an eccentric old goatherd who eats worm-ridden oranges to improve his sex life) restores the family's faith in human nature and helps them adapt to a new and unexpectedly testing life in this deceptively simple idyll of rural Spain.","brand":"Whatta Production LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105007911152,"sku":"2940170542437","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170542437_p0.jpg?v=1763711975","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170542437","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}