The Good{Expat}Life
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The Good{Expat}Life is a series of vignettes that can be read as complete short stories or as a whole. Penny and George have embarked on a new life; not only as man and wife (both second timers) but in a new country. When their business goes to the wall they have to make difficult decisions about their retirement plans for moving to Italy where they had invested in an old crumbling property. After much hair pulling, wine drinking and discussions with their trusted friends, Daphne and Roger, they decide to move, lock stock and barrel. The stories are a humorous take on the issues of moving abroad with very little in the back pocket as well as the everyday complications of another language, culture and systems. Penny and George bumble along knocking into the odd expat here and there, collecting a family of stray animals and trying hard to cultivate green fingers to keep the wolf from the door.
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