num_pages: 338
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 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 familys 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 her dream  though its not at all the one she expected.
language: English
title: One Italian Summer: Across the World and Back in Search of the Good Life
publisher: Affirm Press