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The Enchanted April (Virago Modern Classics)
by: Elizabeth Von Arnim

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780860685173
ISBN: 0860685179
Label: Virago Press Ltd
Manufacturer: Virago Press Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 263
Publication Date: November 27, 1991
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Studio: Virago Press Ltd
Sales Rank: 48462

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- Enchanted April
The image of Italy, in a time of gentle romance falls from the page. It is as refreshing as a glass of crisp white wine, while bathing in the evening sun. The characters are at one time seperate holiday makers and a collective changing of attitudes to others and to themselves.On the face of it, it is a book about four women who go on holiday together but in fact it is about taking chnaces no matter how small or big.
It is the perfect book for anyone who has been in love with a place and a person at the same time and will be again.

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- The Restorative Power of Beauty
Much like the film this book by Elizabeth Von Arnim inspired, there is something peaceful here on these pages. This is a gentle novel about the gradual internal changes brought about by the beauty of our surroundings. It is a book that reads itself as much as it is read, the author writing with the flow of the characters thoughts and feelings as their hearts are changed by the suprise of beauty.

An ad to rent a castle in San Salvatore on the Italian Riviera will prompt two British women, Rose and Lottie, with only a passing acquaintance, to inexplically leave their husbands behind for a summer that will change their lives and their marriages forever.

Joining Rose and Lottie for this holiday is Mrs. Fisher, an older woman ... Read More:

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- Light, beautiful and full of magic
I love this book. I've read it several times and it's as lovely each time. Last time I read the whole book on a long train journey and I didn't mind the long delays because I was enjoying myself! I think it's a happy, dreamy, magical book, full of flowers, sunshine and emotion. The characters become more and more truly themselves as the book progresses.

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- A delightful book
This is romance of the best kind, laced with magic and full of fun. For a book written in the 1920's it is a surprisingly modern read. The characters are all wonderfully drawn and the atmosphere is created so wonderfully it is a wrench to come back to dreary old England from the delights of a springtime Italy.

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- An Enchanted April is an enchanting read
Elizabeth Von Antrim's novel has a time less appeal and the ability to take you from your present surroundings into a surreal atmosphere of Pre Raphelite beauty and intensity. Her characters come alive when removed from the austerity of 1920s London to a beautiful Italian castle surrounded by sunlight and Wisteria. Four women, strangers to one another are transported to a world where the routines of middle class turn of the century life are forgotten and where their minds and bodies are set on fire with imagination and passion. Von Antrim captures well the cultural issue of the 'new woman' in this book through the character of 'Lady Caroline Dester'. I would say this is thouroughly a 'woman's' read and it can lighten any dark day. Von Antrim ... Read More:

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