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The Enchanted april
[Paperback - 2007]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Nyrb Classics | ISBN: 9781590172254 | Pages: 376
Shipping Weight: .244 | Dimensions: 5.03 x .55 x 7.99 inches

A recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed.

The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other—and the castle of their dreams—through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don’t anticipate that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy. Now, if the same transformation can be worked on their husbands and lovers, the enchantment will be complete.

The Enchanted April was a best-seller in both England and the United States, where it was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and set off a craze for tourism to Portofino. More recently, the novel has been the inspiration for a major film and a Broadway play.

Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works are set in Germany. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writerH.G. Wells, then later marriedEarl Russell, elder brother of the Nobel prize-winner and philosopherBertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writerKatherine Mansfield. Though known in early life as May, her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, which she eventually became to friends and finally to family. Her writings are ascribed to Elizabeth von Arnim. She used the pseudonymAlice Cholmondeleyfor only one novel, Christine, published in 1917.

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