A Rosie Life in Italy
Move to Italy. Buy a Rundown Villa. What Could Go Wrong?
Sourcebooks · Print & ebook · October 15, 2024
Accidentally buying a derelict 22-room villa in the Italian countryside?
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- A lightly comic move-to-Italy setup with enough real-life friction to keep pages turning.
- Themes
- relocation, family, resilience
- Pacing
- Mixed
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved. Most of these share its genre: Personal Memoirs.
The Reluctant TuscanPhil Doran65% matchAlso shares Italy Travel
Diary of a Tuscan BookshopAlba Donati58% match
Under the Tuscan SunFrances Mayes55% matchAlso shares Italy Travel
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid AdventureRhys Bowen54% match
The American Roommate ExperimentElena Armas54% match
Story of My LifeLucy Score53% match
Fast CompanyDavid M. Gross53% match
For younger readers: Love & Gelato, Getting the Boot, Love & Luck
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
Accidentally buying a derelict 22-room villa in the Italian countryside? What could possibly go wrong? When Rosie Meleady's landlady doubles her rent in cold, wet, overpriced Ireland, she packs up her family, her two dogs, and all her possessions into a camper van and sets off across Europe to sunny Italy, where she plans to grow her destination wedding planning business.
Continue reading
Even though it has been a dream she attempted to follow several times, Rosie and her family soon find out moving abroad to start a new life is not all sunshine and gelato. Between a hurricane, a global pandemic, and accidentally buying a massive villa—that has definitely seen better days— from eight cousins in the middle of a long-standing family dispute, Rosie pulls back the curtains on the less glamorous side of moving abroad. Lighthearted, uplifting, and utterly escapist, A Rosie Life in Italy is HGTV meets Under the Tuscan Sun—a delightful peek under the covers of what it's like to throw caution to the wind, take a risk, and build a life you once only dreamed of having.
Italy, With Friction
A lightly comic move-to-Italy setup with enough real-life friction to keep pages turning.
Come here for
- Italy-adjacent misadventures
- rundown-villa energy
Expect
- travel-and-life-change blend
- easy, sustained read
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 92% |
|---|---|
| Italy Travel | 55% |
| Travel Humor | 41% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Travel Humor
- Italy Travel
- Authors
- Rosie Meleady
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks
- Published
- October 15, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- relocation · family · resilience
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs