One Italian Summer
Across the world and back in search of the good life
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Publisher Description
Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their fruit rotted, and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable thing - they quit their jobs, pulled the children out of school and went searching for la dolce vita in Italy. One Italian Summer is a warm, funny and poignant story of a family's search for a better way of living, in the homes and on the farms of strangers. Pip sleeps in a tool shed, feasts under a Tuscan sun, works like a tractor in Calabria and, eventually, finds the good life she's always dreamed of - though not at all where she expected.
Customer Reviews
I did not want it to end …
Much like Eat, Pray, Love, I rationed this book. From the second chapter I knew it would be an emotional feast, best served in small portions so that each delicate flavour could be savoured; swished around like a complex wine. The author becomes my friend and her writing like an intimate conversation between kindred spirits, teaching and learning at the same time. I feel like I understand her well and know her family too. What a joyful discovery.
And the final paragraph of the epilogue? I quite literally burst into tears. More joy. And yes, some sadness too that this journey she shared with me (it was just me, right?) had concluded.
I’m hoping for a movie …