Buzz McCarthy

Interlude with Wild Boars Buzz McCarthy

Wild Boars explores the values and lifestyle in a rural valley that remains in empathy with a simpler age. It embraces personal and logistic challenges over a 14-year period especially those occurring through a year of full-time residence including domestic violence Italian style, the intricacies of Italian bureaucracy and the near death experience of Buzz's husband from a single hornet sting. Interlude with Wild Boars is in the genre of a sea change book exploring life in Italy from a foreigner's perspective. It is built around Buzz's aspirations to own a house in Tuscan from the time of her first visit as a 22-year-old and the journey across many years to bring this to reality. First there was the dream. Then there was the search. And then came the restoration of a crumbling ruin without water, electricity, kitchen, bathroom, heating and with not much roof left. Ah, but it had a view to compensate for everything else. Two themes run throughout: Buzz's belief that we alone create our reality and an exploration of why we choose to travel down someone else's ancestral roads. Buzz's passion for Italy and passion for life are thought provoking and will inspire readers to question their own beliefs and dream bigger dreams. You will be inspired by Buzz's love of this adopted land and her passion, not just for Italy, but for life.