Enchanted April (Von Arnim - Oxford ed.)

Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim

File under: Von Arnim

ISBN: 9780198859093

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

Four very different women -- the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher, and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline Dester -- are drawn to the shores of the Mediterranean that April. As each, in turn, blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring and finds their spirits stirring, quite unexpected changes occur.

The Enchanted Aprilis a deceptive and timely novel immured in a post-war context, a period noted for its wistful and sometimes satiric writings.