The Italy Years: This I Remember

By Dr. Jocelyn Scott Peccei

This vibrant memoir recounts the story of an eleven year-old girl from Boston, who moves to Italy with her family in the early 1950s. The reader sees post-war Italy through the eyes of an inquisitive child, who refuses to go to convent school and learns Italian by watching dubbed American movies. A different world opens up when she is sent to Ch'telard, a British boarding school in Switzerland.At Ch'telard she discovers another culture, which she describes in vivid detail, providing an unvarnished look into what British Public Schools were like in that era. She delves with gusto into dress codes, sporting activities, and midnight feasts. The reader learns what "honeybunches" and "cracks" were and meets the redoubtable headmistress, Miss Dorothy Braginton. Her return to America and her coming of age is equally charmingly described, and it is somehow not surprising to learn that she ends up marrying an Italian boy, whom she meets skiing in Vermont.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692110208
• ISBN13: 9780692110201
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Jocelyn Scott Peccei
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"