Phil Acosta

Three Weeks in Italy: a Novel Phil Acosta

THREE WEEKS IN ITALY is the profoundly moving and hilarious story of a journey that a man takes after losing his young wife to cancer. He suffers intense grief for over a year and then joins a dating service to find a new wife. Based on a true story, Douglas Steele marries the first girl he meets after dating her for only three months. But he is haunted by memories of his recently deceased wife of 15 years, while his new bride, Gianna Christophe, is plagued by habits from her single life. The reader will travel with Doug and Gianna as he meets her eccentric parents and her quirky friends before embarking on their three week honeymoon in Italy, where they stumble into trouble nightclubbing in Venice...where Gianna becomes an unstoppable shopper in Florence...where Doug gets into a high speed chase with a taxi in Rome...where Gianna shocks Doug by attacking the customs agents at the Roman airport. Fast paced, never boring, the story unfolds and eventually the newlyweds begin reconsidering their marriage as their resolve to make their honeymoon happy at all costs begins to explode in their faces. The reader will laugh, cry, and ponder the fate of this mismatched couple as they discover themselves and each other.