The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim. Inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera, the work was a US and UK bestseller soon after its initial release, and is perhaps the most widely read and most ebullient of her novels.

Von Arnim wrote, and set, the book in the Castello Brown, a medieval castle in Portofino. The story follows four women who find each other through a London newspaper classified ad, and spend an enlightening few weeks together in the historic Italian village.