03185cam a2200397 i 4500 346832175 TxAuBib 20180519120000.0 180509s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018295496 9780451497666 045149766X TxAuBib rda Mayes, Frances. Women in sunlight [Book] : a novel / Frances Mayes. First edition. New York : Crown, [2018] ©2018. 432 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier I -- Arrivals -- Crazy salad -- By chance -- II -- Orientation -- A soft duvet -- Exile -- In dreams begin responsibilities -- Muse -- Sand castle -- III -- What do tourists want? -- White wisteria -- San Rocco -- A Domani: See you tomorrow -- The good word: Cena -- Only a week -- The x in flux -- La Raccolta: The harvest -- Green -- The unexpected garden -- Growing transparent -- Discovery walk -- Whatever you want to say -- White paper -- North to Venice -- Yellow vespas -- Invasion -- Clasps and chains -- IV -- What's more precious? -- Susan's sphere -- Holy days -- The seven-thousand-mile conversation -- Scattering -- Paper doors -- By candlelight -- Friends -- V -- In touch -- Crossing the bridge -- Almonds: The first flower -- Lo Studiolo: The studio -- Florence: Winter banished -- A letter to mail? -- OVerheard -- Marvels -- Per Sfizio: For fun -- Bougainvillea, grapes, prickly pear -- Changes cause changes -- Tangos -- Carpe diem -- Pearls -- The opening of paper doors -- VI -- Full terms -- Cutting the distance -- Somewhere, someone -- A parabola of light -- Garden of Earthly delights -- Italic hours -- Assumption -- Leap before you -- Something I meant to say -- First night. Four American women become unexpected friends during a magical year in Tuscany marked by a writer's complicated relationship with the subject of her biography, long-postponed dreams, and shifting senses of adventure and bravery. Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of a friend. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of Julia, Camille, and Susan, all of whom have launched a recent and spontaneous friendship. Susan, the most adventurous of the three, has enticed them to subvert expectations of staid retirement by taking a lease on a big, beautiful house in Tuscany. Though novices in a foreign culture, their renewed sense of adventure imbues each of them with a gusto for life, and a fierce determination to thrive--which will have drastic and unforeseeable results. -- Adapted from dust jacket. 20180519. Middle-aged women Fiction. Single women Fiction. Americans Italy Tuscany Fiction. Expatriate authors Italy Fiction. Fiction Women. Fiction Family Life General. Fiction Cultural Heritage. Fiction. Tuscany (Italy) Fiction.