Escaping dreary London for the sunshine of Italy, four very different women take up an offer advertised in the" Times" for a small medieval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April. As each blossoms in the warmth of the Italian spring, quite unexpected changes occur.

A divorcee who is having hallucinations involving her ex-husband is told by a doctor it's her age. To find out if she's really that old she visits her former lovers one by one, a journey accompanied by many disappointments. A study in not-so-graceful aging.

Catherine, "with marriage and motherhood behind her," meets and falls in love with young Christopher as they attend the play "The Immortal Hour," over and over again.--Cover.