A Rosie Life in Italy

Accidentally buying a derelict 22-room villa in the Italian countryside? What could possibly go wrong? When Rosie Meleady’s landlord doubles her rent in cold,wetoverprice Irelandshe packs up her familyher two dogsand all her possessions into a camper van and sets off across Europe to sunny Italywhere she plans to grow her destination wedding planning business. But it’s not all sunshine and gelatoas Rosie and her family soon find out. Between a hurricanea global pandemicand accidentally buying a massive villa–that has definitely seen better days–in the Italian countrysidefrom eight cousins in the middle of a long-standing family disputeRosie pulls back the curtains on the less glamorous side of moving abroadincluding navigating the complex layers and utter ridiculousness of buying a home in Italy; the tribulations of the COVID pandemicwhich forced them to shutter their booming wedding planning businesstaking their income down to zero; and the difficulty of integrating into a completely new countrycultureand language while nearly everything is shut down. Lightheartedupliftingand utterly escapistA 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 windtake a riskand build a life you once only dreamed of.