![]() ![]() Lotty and Rose soon find two other women to help defray the costs of the villa: elderly Mrs. Lotty, too, wishes her marriage might hold more and she longs to escape to a place where she could allow herself to blossom as she has not been able to in her own home. Rose Arbuthnot, a pious woman secretly nursing the pain of lost love, for much as she loves her husband she cannot seem to reconcile the rather unconventional books he writes and her belief in doing right "in God's eyes" and thus they have been estranged for many years. ![]() Her enthusiasm for the place spreads to Mrs. Wilkins certainly needed sunshine in her life. The notice beckoned "to Those Who Appreciate Wisteria and Sunshine" and Mrs. ![]() The story starts when Lotty Wilkins, wilted but not empty in spirit, found an advertisement in the London Times one damp and miserable February afternoon regarding a small medieval Italian castle on the shoes of the Mediterranean to be let, furnished, for the month of April, which she could not resist. The Enchanted April is a story set in the time after world war 1 about four women set to venture out. ![]()
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