The Reluctant Tuscan by Phil Doran (book, not an audio)
When Hollywood writer Doran comes home every night burned out and angry his wife decides enough is enough. She buys a tumbledown Tuscan house while sculpting in Italy and forces him to join her. Doran is resistant to leaving Hollywood glamour for a rustic backwater but he is slowly won over by the seductive Italian lifestyle. Readers who loved Peter Mayle’s humorous tales of Provence will enjoy this book in which a bumbling American tries to deal with Italian bureaucracy, eccentric neighbors, and a comic cast of contractors.