Rosie Meleady

An hilarious, laugh out loud, real midlife adventure about a quick decision to pack up and move to Italy, to follow the dream of renovating a derelict villa. Over 900 reviews averaging 4.6 star with online retailers.

What Are We Doing Here?

A Rosie Life In Italy

The title led me to believe most of this book was moving to and settling in, in Italy. It is more of a memoir from Rosie, about her life and family in Ireland, moving to Italy and living through the first few months of Covid. About different career paths and trials and tribulations.

The book, and I guess like her life was a lot more tense than I anticipated. So it doesn’t make for the most relaxing read and comparing this to “Under the Tuscan Sun” doesn’t seem like a good match.

The writing is fairly smooth, although sometimes the inner monologue gets a bit long winded.

The actual Italy portion of the book doesn’t start until well into the book, so be mindful of that. It baffles me that in preparing to move to Italy, very little Italian was learned, and that the first period there also wasn’t devoted to learning the language.

Perhaps I wasn’t the target audience for this book, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Ive read a few similar books which I enjoyed more.

Suzanne

The title led me to believe most of this book was moving to and settling in, in Italy. It is more of a memoir from Rosie, about her life and family in Ireland, moving to Italy and living through the first few months of Covid. About different career paths and trials and tribulations.

The book, and I guess like her life was a lot more tense than I anticipated. So it doesn’t make for the most relaxing read and comparing this to “Under the Tuscan Sun” doesn’t seem like a good match.

The writing is fairly smooth, although sometimes the inner monologue gets a bit long winded.

The actual Italy portion of the book doesn’t start until well into the book, so be mindful of that. It baffles me that in preparing to move to Italy, very little Italian was learned, and that the first period there also wasn’t devoted to learning the language.

Perhaps I wasn’t the target audience for this book, but I wouldn’t recommend it. Ive read a few similar books which I enjoyed more.

A Rosie Life In Italy What Are We Doing Here?

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