Women in sunlight : a novel /
Mayes, Frances,
Women in sunlight : a novel / Frances Mayes. - First edition. - 432 pages ; 25 cm
Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of adventure and bravery. Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of a friend. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of Julia, Camille, and Susan, all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid retirement by taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany. Though novices in a foreign culture, their renewed sense of adventure imbues each of them with a gusto for life, and a fierce determination to thrive-- which will have drastic and unforeseeable results. -- adapted from jacket.
9780451497666 045149766X 9780525574361 0525574360
Middle-aged women--Fiction.
Single women--Fiction.
Americans--Italy--Tuscany--Fiction.
Expatriate authors--Italy--Fiction.
Tuscany (Italy)--Fiction.
Women in sunlight : a novel / Frances Mayes. - First edition. - 432 pages ; 25 cm
Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of adventure and bravery. Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of a friend. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of Julia, Camille, and Susan, all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid retirement by taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany. Though novices in a foreign culture, their renewed sense of adventure imbues each of them with a gusto for life, and a fierce determination to thrive-- which will have drastic and unforeseeable results. -- adapted from jacket.
9780451497666 045149766X 9780525574361 0525574360
Middle-aged women--Fiction.
Single women--Fiction.
Americans--Italy--Tuscany--Fiction.
Expatriate authors--Italy--Fiction.
Tuscany (Italy)--Fiction.