written by Lee Geum-yi

“In the spring of fifty-eight years old, we left as if writing the first sentence.”

Author Lee Geum-yi, who has written works that touch the hearts of readers with her warm writing style and deep perspective, is a writer of children's and adolescents’literature loved by all generations. She who has been writing novels since her debut, compiled her first essay based on the time she spent in Italy for a month ahead of an important moment in her life. This is a travel story just before the COVID-19 outbreak began. She and her close friends had long made ‘going on a long trip before their 60th birthday’ a bucket list item. No matter how much you hear the saying, ‘Life starts at sixty years old,’ ‘60th birthday’ is still a special event. And she also wanted to give herself something like ‘compensation’ for the time she had lived as a wife and mother.
From famous tourist destinations that come to mind when you think of ‘Italy’ to ordinary villages that are easy to pass without paying attention to. This is full of stories about the scenery and people's lives in every corner of Italy that she discovered while traveling with friends or alone for a month.