Are you reading about the mediaeval castle and the wisteria?
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim
She was reading about the mediaeval castle and the wisteria, or rather had read about it ten minutes before, and since then had been lost in dreams-of light, of colour, of fragrance, of the soft lapping of the sea among little hot rocks .
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Being of an observant habit, he remembered that the house was overgrown by a huge wisteria, and faced eastward.
"Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories"
Henry Seton Merriman