The Enchanted April

Nadia May's enchanting voice leads you through a tale following the month-long transformation of four very different English women in the 1920s. Despite a few production errors, this is a fabulous recording of a story that will inspire you to appreciate and embrace life.

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

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

Much like the film this book by Elizabeth Von Arnim inspired, there is something peaceful here on these pages. This is a gentle novel about gradual internal changes brought about by the beauty of our surroundings. It is a book that reads itself as much as it is read, the author writing with the flow......more

NO MAGIC IN THE AIR Not enchanted, alas. Despite April. Despite Italy. Despite Mrs Fisher. I have been looking forward to reading this novel for a few years. I promised myself to do it necessarily in April, hoping spring will make Elizabeth von Arnim’s book even lovelier. Unfortunately, I kept forget......more