Since her mother's death Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to...

Four English ladies rent a medieval castle on the Italian Riviera for one magical month. Each finds her life transformed in this tale of self-discovery, recounted with warmth, wit, and charm. von Arnim, Elizabeth Von

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'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy'Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday....