The Enchanted April, Elizabeth Von Arnim (Vintage Collector's Classics)

The Enchanted April, Elizabeth Von Arnim (Vintage Collector's Classics)New Hardback A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the greatest holiday novel ever written, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower filled paradise of beauty, warmth

this book reveals their manifold social

and could again

Her husband and her rock

Durness to Lochinver

mystery story – to explain

a matriarchal world and kidnapped husband

or is simply seeking a spot of vicarious adventure

the Chosen One – or at least the only One available

These together with vast numbers of photographs taken by German soldiers used for Intelligence analysis were put into classified Allied Intelligence files at a time when USAAF and RAF imagery was being destroyed

1998 996 GT1 Le Mans winner

And so when their journey ends

from prehistoric violence