"... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer."Lottie and Rose belong to the same London women's...

Elizabeth von Arnim’s novel "Elizabeth and Her German Garden" was first published in 1898. It was instantly popular and has gone through numerous reprints ever since.This story...

Four very different women, all wanting to escape cold and dreary London for different reasons, come together to share a month's holiday in an Italian medieval castle. There’s...

Catherine ignores the whispers of society to marry a man decades her junior, believing their bond is invincible. But the relentless gaze of the world begins to chip away at their...

The only novel published under the pen-name Alice Cholmondeley, ‘Christine’ gives insight into von Arnim's thoughts about the atrocities of World War I. The story is told...

“Last night after dinner, when we were in the garden, I said, "I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to be as idle as I can, so that...

A pompous German officer finds his rigid worldview dismantled during a caravan holiday in the English countryside. His disdain for his wife and his companions is revealed in a...

A whimsical decision to travel leads Ingeborg into a suffocating union with a rigid clergyman. Her vibrant spirit struggles for air in a household dominated by duty and scientific...

In the days before the Great War, a young woman's letters from Berlin capture the glittering surface and the rotting core of a society on the brink. Her musical dreams are...

Written as a journal, ‘In the Mountains’ tells the story of an English woman who after WWI decides to escape her personal troubles in London and seeks refuge at her chalet in...