by Elizabeth von Arnim · Ediciones Invisibles · tapa dura · ISBN 9788412983708
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On a cold and rainy February afternoon, Mrs. Wilkins, while browsing The Times, comes across a surprising advertisement: "To those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine. Small medieval Italian castle to be let furnished for the month of April. Servants included." She immediately closes her eyes and imagines herself on the Italian Riviera, far from the fog and, above all, far from her husband. A month and a half later, four Englishwomen who form an eccentric little group arrive at San Salvatore, where they soon begin to awaken to the warmth of spring, each in her own way, and rediscover an emotion they had buried for years: the joy of being alive and feeling free.
Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp, was an English novelist. Born in Australia, she married a German aristocrat, and her earliest works are set in Germany. Her first marriage made her Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin and her second Elizabeth Russell, Countess Russell. After her first husband's death, she had a three-year affair with the writer H. G. Wells, then later married Frank Russell, elder brother of the Nobel Prize-winner and philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a cousin of the New Zealand-born writer Katherine Mansfield. Though known in early life as May, her first book introduced her to readers as Elizabeth, which she eventually became to friends and finally to family.
