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Drawn by a promise of "wisteria and sunshine," four English ladies exchange their damp and dreary surroundings for a month on the Italian Riviera. They're different from each other in age and attitude, but all are bewitched by their rented medieval castle and the natural beauty of the Portofino peninsula. Their holiday not only refreshes their spirits but also reintroduces them to their true natures and reopens their hearts to love and friendship.
Hilarious and romantic by turns, the novel provides a piquant satire on British society of the 1920s as well as the human foibles of every era. It's also a tale of women coming into their own and finding the courage to be true to themselves and others. This bestselling tale of self-discovery ― recounted with warmth, wit, and charm ― was adapted several times for stage and screen. Not everyone can spend a month in the Italian countryside, but the spell cast by The Enchanted April offers the next best thing.

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Drawn by a promise of wisteria and sunshine, four English ladies exchange their damp and dreary surroundings for a month on the Italian Riviera. They're different from each other in age and attitude, but all are bewitched by their rented medieval castle and the natural beauty of the Portofino peninsula. Their holiday not only refreshes their spirits but also reintroduces them to their true natures and reopens their hearts to love and friendship.
Hilarious and romantic by turns, the novel provides a piquant satire on British society of the 1920s as well as the human foibles of every era. It's also a tale of women coming into their own and finding the courage to be true to themselves and others. This bestselling tale of self-discovery―recounted with warmth, wit, and charm―was adapted several times for stage and screen. Not everyone can spend a month in the Italian countryside, but the spell cast by The Enchanted April offers the next best thing.
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Drawn by a promise of "wisteria and sunshine," four English ladies exchange their damp and dreary surroundings for a month on the Italian Riviera. They're different from each other in age and attitude, but all are bewitched by their rented medieval castle and the natural beauty of the Portofino peninsula. Their holiday not only refreshes their spirits but also reintroduces them to their true natures and reopens their hearts to love and friendship.
Hilarious and romantic by turns, the novel provides a piquant satire on British society of the 1920s as well as the human foibles of every era. It's also a tale of women coming into their own and finding the courage to be true to themselves and others. This bestselling tale of self-discovery―recounted with warmth, wit, and charm―was adapted several times for stage and screen. Not everyone can spend a month in the Italian countryside, but the spell cast by The Enchanted April offers the next best thing.
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; Reprint edition (March 17, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 048681341X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486813417
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1.25 x 7.75 inches

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Wyoming Bas Bleu

Italy

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2024

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This book is as enchanting as a story as it was a movie. Wonderful tale of how a trip changes people’s lives.

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2023

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I enjoyed the book, it has the rhythm of another era. It is beautifully written and the intertwined description of the gardens and feelings is exquisite.
It ends abruptly wish is confusing though.

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E. Strickenburg

Whimsical and refreshing

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2013

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Whenever I find myself bogged down by read too much Faulkner or Steinbeck (or other heavy, serious literature), I take the time to re-read this book. Or Anne of Green Gables . It's that sort of book: warm, tender, refreshing.

Mrs. Wilkins and Mrs. Arbuthnot are weary. Weary of social pressures and distant husbands, weary of constantly giving and never receiving anything in return, weary of pretending to be something they're not. All this weariness is bundled up under the dismal weather that is London in the winter. On a whim, after seeing an advertisement in the paper, they decide to inquire about a castle for rent in Italy.

One thing leads to another, and in April they find themselves (along with two other renters they picked up through inquiries in the paper) embarking on a venture unlike anything they've ever dared before. The time in Italy is a time of transformation, and we watch as each woman in turn comes alive again, surrounded by sun and wisteria.

The changes that take place in each woman's life are subtle and wholesome. This is not a dump-my-husband-to-go-to-Italy-and-try-desparately-to-get-the-most-out-of-life sort of story. It's a story of personal growth and rejuvenation. Of spouses rediscovering what they first loved about each other. Of the way that human love begets more love, and how true human sympathy can unlock depths in even the crustiest of souls. This story of deep and memorable characters, which intertwines humor and compassion, is heartfelt without being sappy or sentimental. It's a book to treasure over and over again.

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Deborah Paul

Movie Better Than the Book

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2013

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I admit, I'm rather picky when it comes to literary writing, so others may rate this higher. I feel that the writing isn't as sensually appealing as the dialogue in the movie. I love the movie so much, I've probably seen it at least 8 times. The idea for the story is awesome, so I can understand why the film industry took to it and created a movie full of eye candy and charming dialogue. I, personally, didn't feel the magic in the book that I felt in the movie.

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I am partial to stories about people who successfully escape a mundane life and find magic, either the magic of fantasy stories or the more potent magic of discovering what one really has needed to live a rich life. The Enchanted April is the latter type of story.

I was first acquainted with the story via the Golden Globe award-winning movie of the same name. Housewives Lottie Wilkins and Rose Arbuthnot, bedeviled by rain, dreary routines and joyless marriages in post WWI Hampstead, England, determine to spend an April at San Salvatore, a "Small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be Let furnished for the month of April". Says Mrs. Wilkins to Mrs. Arbuthnot, "I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy [. . .] and I--- I've done nothing but duties, things for other people, every since I was a girl, and I don't believe anybody loves me a bit--a bit---the b-better. . ."

To San Salvatore they go, reducing the expenses further by recruiting two more women. Wealthy and elderly Mrs. Fisher and beautiful socialite (in fact, she is too beautiful for her own good) Lady Caroline Dester have their own reasons for wishing to take a break from their lives.

Unusually enough, I like the movie a smidge more than the book. I think the movie handles certain situations more deftly and amusingly than the book. What the book provides, that the movie does not, is a touch of kindly social satire that reminded me of Jane Austin, and a clearer account of the mistaken notions that have landed all four women in their individual pickles. Author Elizabeth von Arnim clearly likes her characters, but she does not present them as saintly women put upon by a wicked and unappreciative world. They are flawed. Their flaws, however, are presented in such a way as to evoke sympathy and, rather unexpectedly, amusement.

In fact, I believe that the character portraits of the women, and the men in their lives, are the book's strength and the best reason to read it. Van Arnim's characters blossom from their pinched and unsatisfactory lives like the flowers of San Salvatore, and it is a pleasure to watch them bloom in their several quirky ways. I think the other strength of the book is the gorgeous descriptions of San Salvatore, with its gardens, its spacious rooms, and its magnificent views. The book is a testament to the healing and clarifying effects of living in the midst of natural beauty.

Reading The Enchanted April is itself a vacation from modern-day melodrama, angst, and ugliness. Bask in van Armin's sometimes lush and always light-hearted prose, and imagine yourself in felicitous company in the gardens of San Salvatore. I know I did!

Don't forget to view the movie, too.

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Wendy M.

Charming, but so wordy

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2023

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By the end I loved the characters , but not in the beginning! I suppose the author meant to inspire our indignation.
I found the 65 word sentence quite daunting, such that I considered stopping. However, by reading some sentences twice I found my way through what seemed a thicket of interlocking phrases.
The descriptions and inclusion of each person's inner dialogues pulled me into the story.
I doubt I'll seek more by this author, but this story was worth reading and left me with a smile.

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Albina Baumung

Great book

Reviewed in Canada on September 29, 2023

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Great purchase, came in timely and in perfect condition. This is a book very few people know of, a very simple and sweet story from the 1930s of for women spending a month in Italy and Darrel lives being changed. It is old-fashioned, sweet and clean. Only people who like descriptional and classical literature will appreciate this.

Jeffrey

A charming story of four lost women finding themselves

Reviewed in Germany on January 31, 2024

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Vey well written. I was surprised that once I started I wanted to read this in one go, more than five hours. Then I watched the film.

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Reviewed in Spain on June 22, 2023

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Fácil de leer, lectura muy agradable y amena. Inspira paz y alegría de vivir

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barrocat

un livre parfait pour le mois d'avril

Reviewed in France on April 16, 2023

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je relis ce livre quasiment tous les ans au mois d'avril depuis des années. je ne m'en lasse pas. Un vrai bonbon anglais ! on aurait toutes envies de réunir les copines et de partir un mois à San Salvatore en avril et d'en revenir transformées comme les héroïnes de ce roman !

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An Enchanting Read :)

Reviewed in India on September 14, 2018

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Such an enchanting read this! I wasn’t sure quite what to expect but I really wasn’t prepared to be drawn as deeply into it as I was, complete with highlighter and all :)

This is my first Von Arnim, and she is already a favourite because of the way she writes women! We meet four women in the pages of this book - Lotty, Rose, Scrap and Mrs. Fisher - each one unique in her character and in the nature of her unhappiness - yet thrown together by their chosen common cure - a holiday in an Italian castle in the Spring - that season of rejuvenation, renewal and rebirth.

Von Arnim is a master at character sketches. The women leap off the page, each with their unique foibles and I was transported to San Salvatore, lost with them, as they roamed its magical gardens or hid away in quiet niches contemplating perceived problems or meditating on possible solutions. When they reached journey's end, I was as reluctant to leave as they were but equally renewed and perhaps in a not so insignificant way - reborn :)

Von Arnim's language, her excellent wit and sense of irony, her piercing observations into the hearts of her characters and the times they live in, coupled with her incisive prose and layered narrative made this an utterly unforgettable and entirely remarkable read. It's been a while since I read such marvellously written, authentic, grounded women, and truth be told it was hard to pick a favourite. I loved Lotty for her indomitable optimism, her willingness to be joyful, to 'let the light in' as it were; Rose for her serenity, fortitude and courage; Scrap for her madness, reserve and humanity and dear old Mrs. Fisher for her perseverance and willingness to embrace change when it came! I think everyone who reads this book will recognise themselves and their friends in these wonderfully complex, layered women. I know I did.

There are many lines I've highlighted throughout the text. Here are just a few...

And Frederick, from her passionately loved bridegroom, from her worshipped young husband, had become second only to God on her list of duties and forbearance. There he hung, the second in importance, a bloodless thing bled white by her prayers. For years she had been able to be happy only by forgetting happiness.

...the very way Mrs. Arbuthnot parted her hair suggested a great calm that could only proceed from wisdom.

...her life had been a noise all about nothing.

She wanted to be alone, but not lonely.

Those last two sentiments especially are ones that I'm uncomfortably familiar with, as I'm sure are most of us. I cannot recommend this book enough, especially to my girlfriends! READ IT NOW :)

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