Books with author ELIZABETH GOUDGE

It is 1842, Maria Merryweather is 13 years old and newly orphaned. Her father's debts have taken away the London home she loved so much. Now there is only enough money to send Maria, her dog Wiggins, and her governess, Miss Heliotrope, to the West Country. There in a part of the world they have never before seen, they are to live with Sir Benjamin Merryweather, a distant cousin. "A beautiful story, particularly for children and families." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)

Out in the Park one day, children, I met a little boy not bigger than you are, who told me that he liked stories about a boy and a dog and the things they did together. He said that it must be a real boy and a real dog, and there must be other animals in the story, not great, big, fierce ones, but just neighborly ones-animals a boy might, perhaps, meet when he went for walks in the woods-and take pictures of and get to know. So this is the story of the way a real boy and a real dog spent their first summer in the real country; and the fun they had together.

"A recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed. The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with their everyday lives. They find each other-and the castle of their dreams-through a classified ad in a London newspaper one rainy February afternoon. The ladies expect a pleasant holiday, but they don't anticipate that the month they spend in Portofino will reintroduce them to their true natures and reacquaint them with joy. Now, if the same transformation can be worked on their husbands and lovers, the enchantment will be complete."