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I'm looking for a book I read in the nineties and I think it may have been written in the eighties.
It's a about a small group of people, 5-7?, who meet each other at a stay at a castle in the country in Italy or France. They don't know each other beforehand, but I think they may be invited there and have some kind of common purpose for going.
There's several couples, a single older or middle-aged countess (or something like that) and an older man, who is, I think American or British. He's the one I remember best. He's an atheist and self-awoved cynic, and talks a great deal about this. At some point, during an outing, he talks about being an atheist and a roller-coaster feeling of falling through space it gives to imagine not having some god to hold his hand under one. There's a young woman, too, I think she may be a daughter or niece of one of the other characters.
I think the author may be Italian or perhaps French, but that could be because of the story.
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