Four discontented Englishwomen rent an Italian castle for the month of April, where beauty and sunshine quietly transform their lives and marriages.
Books mentioned in The Enchanted April (2)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: “that line spoken years and years ago by an actress playing the part of Poor Jo in dramatised version of Bleak House”
The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin: “nor of Ruskin's, whose Stones of Venice she had brought with her to re-read so nearly on the very spot”
Books that mention The Enchanted April (1)
The Philosopher Kings by Jo Walton: “I had a queer obsession about justice. As though justice mattered. As though justice can really be distinguished from vengeance. It's only love that's any good. —ELIZABETH VON ARNIM, The Enchanted April”