My Love Affair With Italy

Memoir of a single woman's travels to Italy spanning 45 years from a teenager to retirement

By: Debbie Mancuso

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Not your typical travel memoir, My Love Affair With Italy is a collection of one woman’s travels spanning 45 years, intertwined with a revealing personal account of the family struggles that draw her back to Italy each time.

After a harrowing first trip left her stranded in Europe at age 17, she became obsessed with returning to the home of her ancestors. Her goal was to reach a village deep in the mountains of Sicily—the birthplace she had only heard about as a child. It was there her aunt’s husband grew up in a cave that predated Christ before immigrating to the United States.

If you are looking for a different kind of travel memoir, My Love Affair With Italy by Debbie Mancuso will transport you with her vivid descriptions of stays in agriturismi (farmhouses), apartments, vineyards, medieval villages, monasteries, villas, and horseback riding centers. Many readers have commented they feel they were there with her.

“Customers find this memoir easy to read and well-written in the author's own words, featuring wonderful stories and beautiful descriptions of Italy. The book is entertaining and informative about the country, with one customer noting it takes readers on a journey through its towns. Customers appreciate the author's heartwarming approach, with one review mentioning how it goes straight to the heart.”

Take this literary journey with her. Read of new romances, old ones, the 50-year bond between three women, and the friends met along the way, culminating in surprising reunions four decades later. Accompany her after a tragic loss at age 50, when she enrolled as an exchange student in Tuscany and came home to a letter that would change her life.

My Love Affair With Italy is a spiritual journey featuring divine interventions that connected her family after 100 years in the most unusual way.