From the bestselling author of "Under the Tuscan Sun" and written with Frances Mayes' characteristic warmth, kindness, and delicious descriptions of places, food, and friendship, "Women in the Sunlight" tells the story of four American strangers who connect in Italy and change their lives over the course of an extraordinary year. She watches from her terrace as the three American women carry their luggage into the stone villa on the hillside. Who are they and what brings them to this Tuscan village, so far from home? As an expat with her own unfinished story, she can't help but wonder: Will they find what they came for? Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of her close friend, a complex woman who continues to cast a shadow over Kit's own life. Her work is interrupted by the arrival of three women—Julia, Camille, and Susan—who have all embarked on a recent and spontaneous adventure.