Having three generations of her family living under the same roof was once part of the Italian dream for Rosie. But when her party-loving, whiskey-drinking, poker-playing 85-year-old mother moves over from Ireland to Italy, Rosie\u2019s longed for dolce vita in Umbria is anything but sweet.<\/p>\n
With a preference for bland boiled potatoes to her daughter\u2019s Italian cooking and an aversion towards housework, Rosie\u2019s mother\u2019s requirements to feel at home in the Sighing House\u2013including a smelly deep fat-frier, lots of clutter, parties and a new pup\u2013are very different to Rosie\u2019s vision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, the most urgent thing on Rosie\u2019s to-do list is not dealing with the needs of her artist mother, nor the ongoing renovation \u2018what now?\u2019 moments\u2014such as electric wires in the chimney. Rosie has the more pressing issue of a backlog of twenty summer weddings to be planned now that Covid restrictions are lifted. But with vendors going bust, and demands of couples going extreme, Rosie needs to find a way to get through the hottest Italian summer on record without burning out or having a gelato-mountain sized melt down.<\/p>\n Includes 10 delicious and simple recipes including Strangled Priest and White Walnut Pasta.<\/p>\n \u201cI love the Rosie series!\u2026 entertaining and funny!\u201d \u2013 Jenny Marrs, Host of HGTV\u2019s Fixer to Fabulous<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Under The Tuscan Sun\u2019 meets \u2018Escape To The Chateau\u2019 with a dash of \u2018Eat Pray Love\u2019 in this hilarious Italian villa renovation memoir. \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The blurb for A Rosie Life In Italy 4 is finished! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosiemeleady.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}