![]() ![]() On a grey, rainy afternoon in February, the promise of sunshine and wisteria is instantly appealing to solicitor’s wife Lottie Wilkins and Rose Arbuthnot, whose husband writes books of which she disapproves. In The Enchanted April, the castello and its gardens works its magic on four women who discover each other through an advert in a London newspaper announcing the castle’s availability as a holiday rental. Just like her characters, von Arnim was captivated by San Salvatore, a medieval castello on the hillside looking over the fishing village:Īcross the bay the lovely mountains, exquisitely different in colour, were asleep too in the light and underneath her window, at he bottom of the flower-starred grass slope from which the wall of the castle rose up, was a great cypress, cutting through the delicate blues and violets and rose-colours of the mountains and the sea like a great black sword. ![]() ![]() This novel about four women who take a holiday in Portofino, was apparently inspired by Elizabeth von Arnim’s own sojourn in that part of the coastline. On a dark and gloomy winter day, what a joy it was to be transported to the sunny climes of the Italian Riveria, courtesy of The Enchanted April. ![]()
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