The Little Italian Hotel by Phaedra Patrick

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Italy: Just What the Doctor Ordered 

This book is a sweet ray of sunshine (with a few stabs to the heart)! A group of grief-stricken people find solace in Italy and each other.

 

After a husband leaves his self-help radio talk show wife, she invites four random listeners to join her on what would have been her 25th wedding anniversary trip to Italy.  On this healing retreat, they each face their own grief in an old-world charming hotel where the innkeeper is stuck in the past and faces his own challenges. 

 

I loved everything about this book:  the setting, the side trips to Florence and Venice, the delicious homemade food the hotel owner whips up, and the friendships formed through bonds of sorrow.

 

Charming and uplifting!  


Pub date: June 6, 2023


If you like books set in Italy you may want to check out:


One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle

The Seamstress of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions by Mario Giordano

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop by Alba Donati:  Pub date:  May 30, 2023

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes – Memoir

The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran – Memoir


Happy Reading,

Happy Travels,


Annette


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