TY - BOOK AU - Mayes,Frances TI - Women in sunlight: a novel SN - 9780451497666 PY - 2018///] CY - New York PB - Crown KW - Middle-aged women KW - Fiction KW - Single women KW - Americans KW - Italy KW - Tuscany KW - Expatriate authors KW - Tuscany (Italy) N2 - 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 ER -