The Enchanted April (Summarized Edition)

Set in the early 1920s, The Enchanted April follows four dispirited English women—Lottie Wilkins, Rose Arbuthnot, Mrs. Fisher, and Lady Caroline Dester—who answer a small advertisement and rent a castle above the Ligurian coast. Von Arnim blends luminous nature writing with comedy of manners, using free indirect discourse as wisteria, sun, and sea air reorder memory, desire, and marriage. An inter...