title: Italian Survival Guide: The Language and Culture You Need to Travel with Confidence in Italy
author:  Elizabeth Bingham 
description: Elizabeth Bingham has written numerous language and culture books for travelers to Europe (<i>Italian Survival Guide, Italian Dictionary with Phrases for Travelers, French Survival Guide, German Survival Guide</i>) and has recently branched into travel memoir with her book <i>French Twist: A Refreshingly Frank Travel Memoir by a Modern American Puritan</i>. She has a Ph.D. in Foreign Language Education/Applied Linguistics and lives in NE Iowa with her family and her elderly cat.
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  Catherine Mangan grew up in Ireland before embarking on her own Italian
  escape. She studied languages at University College Cork before moving to
  Italy (briefly) with friends, which was the start of a life-long love affair
  with the country. She now divides her time between Ireland and Silicon Valley.
  _The Italian Escape_ is her first novel.
  
  
  Under another name, Catherine is an award-winning Irish entrepreneur and
  creator of a language-learning app, which has users in 175 countries.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # [Copyright](toc.xhtml#toc-copyright)
  
  
  Published by Sphere
  
  
  ISBN: 978-0-7515-7984-0
  
  
  All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the
  public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or
  dead, is purely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © Catherine Mangan 2020
  
  
  The moral right of the author has been asserted.
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored 