![]() Grace Soudley’s life is coming apart at the seams. The majestic Scottish highlands, covered in purple heather and dotted with sheep and llamas, provide a dramatic backdrop while Jenny tries to pull everything together in time to save the mill and figure out her increasingly complicated personal life, in this delightful, romantic romp. Then there’s the problem of being attracted to the dashing yet abrasive Ross Grant, who has a way of showing up just when things seem almost sane and manageable. As she gets to know the colorful Dalmain clan, Jenny just can’t say no when asked to help run a mobile food stand, save the family business, put an overbearing matriarch in her place, rekindle an old romance, or throw a dinner party for sixteen on short notice. That cost might just be her sanity as she stretches her resources, patience, and compassion to the outer limits. ![]() Dispatched to as*sess a failing textile mill, Jenny instead finds herself determined to save it at any cost after befriending its charming employees. So where does that leave her love life? Well, romance has a funny way of working itself out…Īfter a fight with her boyfriend, a business trip to Scotland is the perfect diversion for Jenny Porter, who works as a virtual assistant for a financial executive. Thea knows that bringing Rory’s spectacular paintings into London’s art world would be just the challenge she’s looking for. But when Thea sees Rory’s paintings, everything suddenly makes sense… Somehow, Thea lets Rory convince her to stay with him until she sorts things out. ![]() A little wine, a little C zanne what could be better? For starters, meeting a devilishly handsome artist named Rory. On a lark, Thea accepts her friend’s offer to go to France for an art tour. Then reality sets in…Īnd thirty something Thea realizes she’s a bit young to be a house matron. Selling her London flat to open a rooming house feels better at first. For Thea, giving the boot to her man feels good. Life as a globetrotting photojournalist had its moments for Thea Orville until a shifty scheme by her boyfriend ruins her career. What she finds includes a cast of quirky an ever present neighbors, a couple of SNAGs Sensitive New Age Guys, some very humorless bank officials, two disarming little canines, one gracious, dilapidated, romantic old house, and, just maybe, enough elbow grease to polish everything up again.A British bestseller that’s as inviting as an elegant old house full of unexplored rooms after a good scrubbing down, of course, Stately Pursuits is the funniest, smartest, and warmest read of the season. With no job, no lover, no prospects, and no particular talent for resuscitating crumbling estates, she hope for nothing more than some good old fashioned escape. When Hetty Longden, freshly dumped and brokenhearted, agrees to look after her great uncle’s long abandoned mansion in the British countryside, she’s at something of a lifetime low. I don’t suppose you’d care to house sit for a while?’Thus begins the irresistible story of two fixer uppers an old house and a young woman and their efforts to recapture their true luster. Perdita needs someone to lean on - and Lucas seems so keen to help that she starts to wonder if he's really such a villain.‘You’re not doing very much at the moment, darling. ![]() Her life is further complicated when Kitty, her 87-year-old friend, has a stroke. When Perdita Dylan delivers her baby vegetables to a local hotel and finds that her unpredictable ex-husband, Lucas, has taken over the kitchen, she is horrified - particularly when she discovers he's being groomed as the latest celebrity chef and needs her picturesque, if primitive cottage, and her, in supporting roles. 'Top-drawer romantic escapism' DAILY MAIL 'Katie Fforde is on sparkling form' INDEPENDENT 'Effortlessly lovable, warm and fun' CLOSER 'The queen of uplifting, feel good romance' AJ PEARCE 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of A Wedding in Provence. Love can grow on you, or can it? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. ![]()
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