They find some common ground in that both are struggling to make the best of unhappy marriages. Wilkins, who belong to the same ladies' club but have never spoken, become acquainted after reading a newspaper advertisement for a small medieval castle on the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April.
The novel follows four dissimilar women in the 1920s England who leave their rainy, grey environments to go on holiday in Italy. Critic Terence de Vere White credited The Enchanted April with making the Italian resort of Portofino fashionable. Von Arnim wrote and set the book in the 15th century Castello Brown. The work was inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, probably the most widely read (as an English and American best seller in 1923 ) and perhaps the lightest and most ebullient of her novels. The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim. The 15th-century Castello Brown in Portofino, where von Arnim wrote the novel
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