It tells the life of a Sicilian peasant girl, Teresa, who is brought to a village in Provence just after the First World War; is adopted by two very "twenties" lesbian ladies, one American, one English, who rebuild, maintain, and allow to decay, an old house called the Bishop's Palace.
1987, George Kearns, “Post-Colonial Fiction: Our Custom Is Different”, in The Hudson Review, volume 40, number 3, page 493