One Italian summer : across the world and back in search of the good life / Pip Williams.
Publication details: South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2021.Description: 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922419330
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 914.5 WIL | Available | 062786 |
First published: 2017.
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 often 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 woodshed, feasts under a Tuscan sun, works like a tractor in Calabria and, eventually, finds the good life she's always dreamed of -- though it's not at all the one she expected.