Ciao! WE'RE IN AFRICA

I was born Maria Martore in 1934. But I have been renamed Iucci by my husband Eugenio Piergiovanni. He is thirteen years my senior is fluent in three languages and is a charismatic businessman. We have left Italy and the only family I have ever known to go to Africa seeking adventures and fortune. I keep thinking - Is Africa really going to be that welcoming? Is my husbands dream of selling Italian Haute Couture to expatriates ridiculous?In December 1955 we settle in Salisbury Southern Rhodesia and open our Italian fashion shop. Our success is promoted by the fashion editor of The Rhodesian Herald as we design clothes for the first entrant of the Miss World competition from Rhodesia and Nyasaland.Ciao! WERE IN AFRICA is based on true events. Through the writing skills of her daughter Maria-luccis story is narrated as a memory as if living in the moment. Coinciding historical event timelines have been carefully researched and evocative photographs included.