Stately Pursuits, Katie Fforde
Stately Pursuits, Katie Fforde
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Stately Pursuits

Author: Katie Fforde

Narrator: Roe Kendall

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2012

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

Youre not doing very much at the moment, darling. I dont suppose youd care to housesit for a while? Thus begins the irresistible story of two fixeruppersan old house and a young womanand their efforts to recapture their true luster. When Hetty Longden, freshly dumped and brokenhearted, agrees to look after her greatuncles dilapidated mansion in the English countryside, shes at something of a lifetime low. With no job, no lover, no prospects, and no particular talent for resuscitating crumbling estates, she hopes for nothing more than some good oldfashioned escape. What she finds includes a cast of quirky and everpresent neighbors, a couple of SNAGs (Sensitive New Age Guys); some very humorless bank officials; a cat and two disarming little canines; one gracious, dilapidated, romantic old house; and, just maybe, enough elbow grease to polish everything up again. A Sunday Times (London) bestseller thats as inviting as an elegant old house full of unexplored rooms, after a good scrubbingdown, of course, Stately Pursuits is the funniest, smartest, and warmest read of the season.

About Katie Fforde

Katie Fforde is the author of romance novels are set in modern-day England. She lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England with her husband, some of her three children,and many pets. Recently her old hobbies of ironing and housework have given way to singing, Flamenco dancing, and husky racing. She claims this keeps her fit.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hélène on May 17, 2019

- 'Wild designs' is exactly the genre I favor: normal people, but gifted ones, everyday life, children, animals, plausible love-story, humor and so on. But having the right ingredients doesn't make the dish and, if I didn't dislike this book, and even liked some parts of it, it wasn't a good read. I......more

Goodreads review by Gail on June 28, 2010

There were definitely times I wanted to smack the main character, Althea, upside the head. Also, her sister, her ex, her mother, and a few other characters. Althea is a 38-year-old divorced mother-of-teens who's just lost her job as a school secretary. This is not all bad news--it gives Althea a chan......more

Goodreads review by Ririn on January 26, 2018

I always love the good old-fashioned romance.......more

Goodreads review by Belinda on May 30, 2022

4 sterren - Nederlandse paperback Recensie volgt.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on April 29, 2008

Katie Fforde continues to be my favorite literary candy. This one was about gardening again, and reminded me how much I still really would love to have a greenhouse. And a fountain. And the heated indoor swimming pool isn't a bad idea either.......more