'This delicious confection will work its magic on all' Daily Telegraph The discreet advertisement in The Times, addressed 'To Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine', offers a small medieval castle for rent, above a bay on the Italian Riviera. Four very different women - the dishevelled and downtrodden Mrs Wilkins, the sad, sweet-faced Mrs Arbuthnot, the formidable widow Mrs Fisher and the ravishing socialite Lady Caroline Dester - are drawn to the shores of the Mediterranean that…

Enchanted April is a lovely film with beautiful period dresses, great hats and Italian scenery.

Where I live in the Great White North, we are finally—finally—beginning to see the signs of spring. Not actual spring of course—we got a whole new layer of fresh snow today—but the barest hints that the season might be on its way; flickerings that…

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A film review of the acclaimed movie, Enchanted April - directed by Mike Newell. It's based on the famous novel by Elizabeth von Arnim.

She slipped between the cracks. And fell into a world of Sublime Beauty. The heavenly world of the Aesthete. The Three Graces: Elegance, Flair, Distinction. Serenity, Subtlety, Gentility. The Refined, The Discerning, The Noble.

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Enchanted April. Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker, Josie Lawrence, Joan Plowright.

Polly Walker as Lady Caroline Dester in Enchanted April