The Enchanted April
Classic Tales Edition

welcome to...THE ENCHANTED APRIL. this is another installment of project long classics, in which i read intimidating paragons of literature in small bits over the course of a month in order to make them less scary, but really so i can keep buying penguin clothbounds and make puns. in this case, this b......more

The environment is dreary… Living from day to day is a dull routine… But one drab day an eye meets a very promising advertisement in the newspaper… She was reading about the mediaeval castle and the wistaria, or rather had read about it ten minutes before, and since then had been lost in dreams, – of......more

Four proper English ladies, who don't know each other at all, decide to pool their resources and rent an Italian villa for a month, in the 1920's. They all have different personalities and there are some conflicting expectations. To make matters worse, (view spoiler)[the husband of one of the women, who has had an (hide spoiler)]......more

I really liked this book in the beginning. Four women, almost complete strangers to one another, take a unique opportunity to split costs on a stunning medieval castle in the Italian Riviera. No husbands, each nursing problems and inner turmoil... what fun! And it was at first. The setting is depicte......more

This was a delightful little story! Four women, previously unknown to one another, leave a dreary winter in England behind to take a one month April holiday in a small, charming Italian castle after responding to an advertisement in a newspaper. The descriptions of the landscape are very lush and ma......more