Enchanted april author5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() I had never even heard of it until recently! When I learned what it was about (four women spend a month in a castle on the Mediterranean coast) and that it was barely over 200 pages, I immediately settled in, fully prepared for a good time – and I wasn’t disappointed! So in my brief affair with classics, I managed to avoid The Enchanted April completely. Naturally this led to an awful time – and I’m still (10 years later!) trying to make up for all that lost time. Recommended for: Fans of great characters and witty banter, readers looking for the perfect beach read, fans of the movie interested in the source materialįor a year or two in high school I went through a period where I refused to read anything but ~highbrow literature~ Somehow I got the idea that, even though I had been madly in love with reading my entire life to that point, I had been doing it all wrong and that classics (read: heavy, hard-to-understand works) were what I really needed to be focusing on. Summary: Escaping dreary London for the sunshine of Italy, four very different women take up an offer advertised in the Times for a “small medieval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April.” As each blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring, quite unexpected changes occur. Source: finished copy via publisher (Thank you, Penguin!!) ![]() The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim ![]()
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