They got it exactly right. This is the very view from the Castello Brown, where The Enchanted April was written and set. 

....is unspeakably beautiful. 

Here's a shot I took of the view from Castello Brown, where the original Enchanted April was written.  Compare with the Penguin Classics cover! 

...to the new Penguin Classics edition of Elizabeth von Arnim's THE ENCHANTED APRIL. To say I'm thrilled does not do justice to my feelings. Maybe this picture of a treasured Puffin paperback, c. 1968, with my name emblazoned on page 1, will illustrate why I love those...

7-31-14

Fischer Verlag acquires German rights to ENCHANTED AUGUST for publication in Summer 2015. (German)

Here's a pic of my very favorite boardwalk on my own Little Lost Island. It is as edenic as it looks. 
 

7-15-14

Beth Coates, Senior Editor, Jonathan Cape & Vintage, has acquired Brenda Bowen's ENCHANTED AUGUST, and a second untitled novel, for publication in Summer 2015. (UK). 

Maybe, just maybe, I'll have a chance of selling here. 

FROM PUBLISHERS MARKETPLACE 6-12-14

Fiction: Debut:

Brenda Bowen's ENCHANTED AUGUST, about a group of strangers - two Brooklyn mothers, an ingenue actress, and a grieving, older companion - who are transformed by spending the month of August on a secluded island in Maine...