Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941), a cousin of the writer Katharine
Mansfield and a lover of H. G. Wells, wrote more than twenty books.
Born in Australia, she spent most of her childhood in England and
lived also in Germany, Switzerland, and France. She moved to the
United States at the start of World War II and died in Charleston,
South Carolina.
Brenda Bowen(introducer) is the author of the novel Enchanted
August,a contemporary reimagining of The Enchanted Aprilset in
Maine. A former children's book publisher, and now a literary
agent, she has written more than forty books under the name
Margaret McNamara. She lives in New York.
“This delicious confection will work its magic on all.” —Daily
Telegraph
“Extraordinarily well-written . . . It is witty, human, often very
beautiful.” —Punch
“Brims with magic and laughter.” —The Guardian
“[One] of the wittiest novels in the English language . . . The
ultimate renter’s novel: a month in and out of a gorgeous place
where extraordinary things happen; then let someone else deal with
the plumbing . . . It’s a confection, it’s a dream, it’s a fleeting
April romance, but oh, how hard to get this story out of your head.
. . . No one can come away from this April without thinking, even
for just a moment, that the course of true love, unsmooth as it may
run, is certainly worth taking.” —Brenda Bowen, author of Enchanted
August, from the Introduction
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