![]() ![]() Wilkins with the eyes of some one who has had a revelation. 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. ![]() Wilkins would have been looked at with interest. The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim. At this moment, if she had been at a party, Mrs. Wilkins, arrested by the expression on her face, which was swept by the excitement of what she saw, and was as luminous and tremulous under it as water in sunlight when it is ruffled by a gust of wind. ![]() Arbuthnot and did not hear a word she said. And behind them, bright in sunshine, were old grey walls-the mediaeval castle -she saw it-they were there. Icture had flashed across her brain, and there were two figures in it sitting together under a great trailing wisteria that stretched across the branches of a tree she didn't know, and it was herself and Mrs. Enchanted April Released 27 November 1991 Its odd how ones mind slips sideways in a place like this. ![]()
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