Buying Options

Read for $0.00

OR

Kindle Price:	$7.99
	includes tax, if applicable

promotions apply when you purchase

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

Redeem a promotion code or gift card

Share <Embed>

A Rosie Life In Italy 2: What Have We Done? by [Rosie Meleady]

Follow the Author

Rosie Meleady

A Rosie Life In Italy 2: What Have We Done? Kindle Edition

by Rosie Meleady (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

616 ratings

Part of: A Rosie Life In Italy (4 books)

See all formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$7.99

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$19.79

—

Kindle
$0.00 This title and over 1 million more available with Kindle Unlimited $7.99 to buy
Paperback
$19.79

3 New from $19.79

What do you do when your adult kids fly the nest and you are having a midlife crisis during a global pandemic? You buy a 22 room derelict villa in Italy while grocery shopping of course. Well, that is what Rosie did.

Buying the house was an accident. She only went out for bananas.

Rosie embarks on renovating her 22 room ‘new’ home in Italy with a non-negotiable move-in date of Christmas Eve.

Surrounded by a cast of interesting characters, the Irish woman learns the Italian way of life and house renovating in the country she wants to call home. But when the project manager goes AWOL, non-Italian speaking Rosie has no option but to take control with the help of a translation app.

With no heating, windows disappearing, mystery holes in the garden, water flooding down the stairs, a pandemic destroyed business and with a move-in date that seems more laughable than doable, Rosie begins to question if she was crazy to follow through on her fabulous midlife crisis dream of renovating a villa in Italy.

Print length

336 pages
Language

English
Publication date

6 November 2021
File size

1616 KB
Page Flip

Enabled
Word Wise

Enabled
Enhanced typesetting

Enabled
See all details

Next 2 for you in this series See full series

$16.49 includes tax, if applicable

By clicking on the buy button, your order will be finalised and you agree to the Kindle store terms of use.

Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B099NQQM3H
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1616 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B09KNGHX9P

Best Sellers Rank: 9,062 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 13 in Italian Travel
- 39 in Biographical Fiction (Books)
- 125 in Travel & Tourism (Books)

Customer Reviews:
616 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Rosie Meleady

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Irish author Rosie Meleady has been a magazine publisher and editor since 1994. She won the International Women in Publishing Award 1996 at the ripe old age of 24. She couldn’t attend the award ceremony in London as she decided it would also be a good day to give birth. Her favourite boardgame growing up was Cluedo, and as an adult she started a Missing Persons Agency.

In her 'A Rosie Life In Italy' series, she writes about buying a 22 roomed derelict villa in Italy by accident, renovating it and existing in Italy.

Her love of solving mysteries led her to start writing her 'Deadly Wedding Cozy Mystery' series which launches in September 2021.

She now lives happily ever after in Italy disguised as a wedding planner, while renovating the villa and writing long into the night.

Follow Rosie on social media to say hello, see photos of life in Italy and her renovation project.

http://www.facebook.com/arosielifeinitaly

http://www.instagram.com/arosielifeinitaly

Follow Rosie’s blog on www.rosiemeleady.com

Rosie Meleady
854
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $7.99
Rosie Meleady
360
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $8.50
Lindy Viandier
428
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $7.07
Craig Briggs
189
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $3.99
Rosie Meleady
58
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $5.49
Annemarie Rawson
941
Kindle Edition
1 offer from $6.69

Customer reviews

5 star		60%
4 star		28%
3 star		9%
2 star		1%
1 star		2%

How are ratings calculated?

Review this product

Write a customer review

Top reviews from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Kindle Customer

Gr8 read

Reviewed in Australia on 7 February 2022

Verified Purchase

Another good read. Felt like I was renovating with them! I am looking forward to reading the last book as its something I have always wanted to do, move to Italy and renovate an old villa...I have now done it virtually and now not so keen as the reality is obviously way harder than anyone can imagine! Your honesty and humor make the read interesting. Reading about the ups and downs of the whole process I could almost taste the dust and feel the cobwebs! I'm sure the end result will be worth the huge effort! Your energy levels amaze me! Congrats on making it into the work house on time for your 1st Christmas albeit without Izzy or your dear parents but I'm sure Christmas 2022 will be a proper Family one🤞🙏

Helpful

donna

couldn’t put Rosie’s book down

Reviewed in Australia on 18 July 2022

Verified Purchase

Having visited Italy twice…and love Italy and everything about it including those very frustrating bits….I hung on every experience Rosie and her family “endured” during the work on the “ sighing house” that turned into the workhouse and now I eagerly await Rosie’s next book including her long awaited reunion with Izzie..I laughed regularly throughout this fabulous read…🌹❤️

Reviewed in Australia on 28 November 2021

Verified Purchase

Smoother narrative, tidier formatting complement the pacy against the clock continuation of the Rosie story, with its vast cast of genuinely likeable characters thrown together in an engaging real life is better than fiction plot.

Reviewed in Australia on 29 November 2021

Verified Purchase

I loved the first book, and this second was enjoyable too, the sadness came through loud and clear, but the positives of the house reno was heart warming.

Reviewed in Australia on 11 July 2022

Verified Purchase

Loving these instalments to live vicariously through your adventures and challenges. Feels such an indulgence every time I see there is another instalment .. thank you

Reviewed in Australia on 11 August 2022

I stumbled across this book after I had finished reading another book called Ciao Bella by Kate Langbroek (which was fabulous by the way). I was hoping that this book would live up to Kate's and it most certainly did. I bought it, read it all in one day (no work was done that day) then to my sheer delight discovered the other two in the series which I have no also read with sheer delight and devoured over lots of cups of tea, chocolate biscuits and absolute enjoyment. They are well written, enough detail to paint a wonderful visual of Italy, even the humour, the expressions, I feel like I know all the characters so well, and Italy oh Italy!!. Def fabulous read, all three books are winners and I can't wait for the next book!!! Am buying the full set for for all my girlfriends and sister for Christmas. Highly, highly recommend. You will not be disappointed.

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Yvonne Farrell

A Rosie Life in Italy 2 as wonderful as number 1

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2021

Verified Purchase

I started reading this little gem yesterday and finished it today, unable to put it down. It’s wonderful, chock full of warmth and humour and so very real. Rosie’s writing is truly evocative, making you feel as if you’re in the thick of the story yourself rather than being a bystander reading about it all. I laughed out loud countless times and was deeply moved by other moments in this family’s story. There’s always a slight trepidation for me when I’m reading a book 2, having loved it’s predecessor, the worry being that it won’t live up to the first and I’ll be disappointed… Nothing could be further from the truth in this case! A beautifully told tale that I just lapped up. Looking forward to the next instalment already! Five stars - highly recommend!

2 people found this helpful

PamelaB

Emotional and awesome.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 June 2022

Verified Purchase

Having read book 1 I couldn’t wait to start book two. I must admit that with book 1 I had to check it was fact not fiction. Wow, Rosie and Ronan have had a rollercoaster experience. Not just the awfulness of COVID but buying a home and a huge renovation project. Strange bunch of bananas.
At one stage in Book 2 I found myself fighting back tears when another lockdown looked like it would ruin Christmas. Like Rosie and Ronan we were planning for our daughter to be here like so many families. It was indeed a terrible time but Rosie’s humour and determination shone through as they struggled against the odds.
I am about to embark on book 3. Better have a glass of wine first. Cheers Rosie and Ronan.

Customer

the definition of a ‘feel good’ story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 December 2021

Verified Purchase

Normally this genre would not catch my eye, very different to the books I usually read but I couldn’t help myself to try it.

I’m very glad that I tried something new, I needed something different and this was exactly the thing. Utterly intriguing and thoroughly wholesome, there were some moments of ‘how will they flip this into a positive’ or ‘will things turn out alright in the end’ but it made the outcomes much more rewarding to read. You get a huge sense of relief from this book, there is so much to relate to especially with current situations, so it was nice to see happier endings and positive outlooks.

As for book three … is it July yet?

Kindle Custom PF

A brilliant read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2022

Verified Purchase

Rosie shares with her readers the ups and downs of trying to renovate a house in Italy during the first year of the Pandemic. A wonderful story of a family coping with the ever changing restrictions in Italy. I enjoyed the first book in this series very much and can't wait until the 3rd one comes out. I could not put this brilliant book down. All the things I planned to do today have been ignored as I finished this book. I highly recommend this book.

Kindle Customer

All systems go!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2022

Verified Purchase

Couldn't put this book down. Would they make it into their new home in time or not? Against all the odds and with lots of ups and downs it turned out alright in the end.

Buying Options

OR

Follow the Author

A Rosie Life In Italy 2: What Have We Done? Kindle Edition

Product details

About the author

Rosie Meleady

Customers who read this book also read

Customer reviews

Review this product

Top reviews from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries