If you are curious as to how Brenda got the idea for Enchanted August, this is what she says: “I almost never watch a movie based on a book before reading the book, but in the case of Enchanted April (the movie) I didn’t even know there was The Enchanted April (the book by the incomparable Elizabeth von Arnim). Her favorite food in all the world is the blueberry. She lives and writes on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She is devoted to Jane Austen, Mary Wesley, Philip Roth, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Billy Shakespeare, Billie Holliday, Billy Wilder, and many other people named Billy. Change can’t be that hard, can it?Ī modern retelling of Elizabeth von Arnim's Enchanted April.īRENDA BOWEN read Pride and Prejudice in one sitting when she was twelve and has never quite recovered. For on this idyllic island they gradually begin to open up: to one another and to the possibilities of lives quite different from the ones they’ve been leading. By the time of the late-August blue moon, real life and its complications have finally fallen far, far away. When they arrive on the island, they are transformed by the salt air the breathtaking views the long, lazy days and the happy routine of lobster, corn, and cocktails on the wraparound porch. If it’s not a perfect quartet, surely it will be fine for a month in the country. On impulse, they decide to take the place and attract two others to share the steep rent: Caroline Dester, an indie movie star who’s getting over a very public humiliation, and elderly Beverly Fisher, who’s recovering from heartbreaking loss. Neither can afford it, but they are smitten-Lottie could use a break from her overbearing husband and Rose from her relentless twins. Old, pretty cottage to rent on a small island. On a dreary spring day in Brooklyn, Lottie Wilkes and Rose Arbuthnot spot an ad on their children’s preschool bulletin board:
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