When Ciara O’Toole and her husband move to Lake Como, Italy, they make plans - to run their own businesses, to learn the language and to immerse themselves in the Italian way of life. But just a few months into the adventure Ciara’s marriage ends and she finds herself alone in a country where she doesn’t speak the language. She is faced with a choice: return to Ireland or stay in Italy and make her new life work. Determined to make a go of it, she throws herself into everything - forging new friendships, whirlwind romances, attempting to eat her own weight in four-cheese pizzas…and learning to fly a seaplane! Her new passion grips her as she works tirelessly towards an all-important milestone; her first solo flight. Told with warmth, humour and disarming honesty, Going Solo on Lake Como is the inspirational story of how one woman finds her wings and takes to the skies.