The Enchanted April, Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Enchanted April, Elizabeth Von Arnim
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The Enchanted April

Author: Elizabeth Von Arnim

Narrator: Robin Siegerman

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2022

Synopsis

When four women leave their drab lives behind to go on holiday in Italy, their lives are changed forever by the Mediterranean. Mrs. Arbuthnot and Mrs. Wilkins, while part of the same ladies' club, have never spoken. Lady Caroline Dester and the elderly Mrs. Fisher join their holiday so as to mitigate expenses. As these women come together and learn more about themselves than they ever thought possible, they reveal their true personalities and the backdrops of their lives that tend to hinder them. Inspired by the author's own month-long trip to the Italian Riviera, this novel is noted as her most widely-read work.

About Elizabeth Von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941) was an English novelist born Mary Annette Beauchamp. With many works to her name, she is best known for The Enchanted April and her semi-autobiographical novel Elizabeth and Her German Garden.

About Robin Siegerman

Robin Siegerman is an Earphones award-winning audiobook narrator who has been nominated for a One Voice Award and was named CV Magazine's 2019 Best Corporate Training Voiceover Artist. Also an acclaimed actor, improv artist, interior designer, author, and speaker, she is originally from Montreal, where grew up speaking both French and English. In her spare time, she can be found surrounded by senior rescue dogs, singing with her a capella ensemble, or playing board games with friends and family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit on April 21, 2024

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

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on May 10, 2020

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

Goodreads review by Candi on April 13, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Bobby on June 30, 2017

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

Goodreads review by Jola on April 14, 2021

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

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