Enchanted April

Elizabeth von Arnim''s novel tells the story of four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave their damp and rainy environs to go on a holiday to a secluded coastal castle in Italy. Mrs Arbuthnot and Mrs Wilkins, who belong to the same ladies'' club but have never spoken, become acquainted after reading a newspaper advertisement for a ''small mediaeval Italian castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April''.