Women in Sunlight

A Crown first edition hardcover in fine condition. Boards are clean, bright, and square throughout with no wear to the spine, corners, or edges. Dust jacket is bright, crisp, and undamaged, fine in all respects with no tears, chips, fading, or soiling. Pages are fresh and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. A pristine, essentially unread copy in fine condition throughout. Published by Crown, Women in Sunlight is the first Italian-set novel by Frances Mayes. The novel is narrated by Kit Raine, an American expat writer who has lived and worked for twelve years in the Tuscan village of San Rocco and is engaged in writing a biography of a close friend. Her measured life is disrupted by the arrival of three American women — Julia, Camille, and Susan — who have leased the stone villa below her terrace for a year of deliberate reinvention, having stepped away from lives that no longer fit. The four women's stories interweave across the seasons of a Tuscan year, in a novel suffused with food, landscape, poetry, and the pleasure of friendship chosen rather than inherited. Ships within Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks