Stately Pursuits: From the #1 bestselling author of uplifting feel-good fiction
Feb 2011 · Random House
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Just the thing for a broken heart. A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wedding Season, A Wedding in Provence and The Perfect Match.
'The queen of uplifting, feel good romance' AJ PEARCE
'Effortlessly lovable, warm and fun' CLOSER
'Katie Fforde is on sparkling form' INDEPENDENT
'Top-drawer romantic escapism' DAILY MAIL
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'I don't suppose you'd care to house-sit for a while...'
Hetty Longden's mother thinks that looking after Great Uncle Samuel's crumbling stately home will be just the thing for Hetty's broken heart. Hetty doesn't mind; at least she can be miserable in private. But 'private' is a relative term in a village which revolves around the big house. Particularly when you are expected to thwart Great Uncle Samuel's awful heir, and his nefarious plans for his inheritance.
Pitchforked into the community's fight to save the manor, Hetty has no time to wallow. And once she has shared her troubles with one neighbour (Caroline: a very understanding shoulder, despite her glamorous appearance and impossibly long legs), and cast an appreciative eye over another (Peter: equally long-legged, but offering rather more practical help), she wonders if her heart is irretrievably broken after all...
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Readers can't get enough of Stately Pursuits ...
***** 'A great weekend read! So much fun and totally romantic.'
***** 'This story gave a me a warm feeling from the first word!'
***** 'I couldn't put it down.'
***** 'This is by far my favourite Katie Fforde book. Katie has not disappointed with this book or any other books that I've read that she has written!'
***** 'Everyone should read at least one Katie Fforde book. Because I believe everyone needs to be able to laugh out loud while they read.'
'The queen of uplifting, feel good romance' AJ PEARCE
'Effortlessly lovable, warm and fun' CLOSER
'Katie Fforde is on sparkling form' INDEPENDENT
'Top-drawer romantic escapism' DAILY MAIL
_________________
'I don't suppose you'd care to house-sit for a while...'
Hetty Longden's mother thinks that looking after Great Uncle Samuel's crumbling stately home will be just the thing for Hetty's broken heart. Hetty doesn't mind; at least she can be miserable in private. But 'private' is a relative term in a village which revolves around the big house. Particularly when you are expected to thwart Great Uncle Samuel's awful heir, and his nefarious plans for his inheritance.
Pitchforked into the community's fight to save the manor, Hetty has no time to wallow. And once she has shared her troubles with one neighbour (Caroline: a very understanding shoulder, despite her glamorous appearance and impossibly long legs), and cast an appreciative eye over another (Peter: equally long-legged, but offering rather more practical help), she wonders if her heart is irretrievably broken after all...
_________________
Readers can't get enough of Stately Pursuits ...
***** 'A great weekend read! So much fun and totally romantic.'
***** 'This story gave a me a warm feeling from the first word!'
***** 'I couldn't put it down.'
***** 'This is by far my favourite Katie Fforde book. Katie has not disappointed with this book or any other books that I've read that she has written!'
***** 'Everyone should read at least one Katie Fforde book. Because I believe everyone needs to be able to laugh out loud while they read.'
Ratings and reviews
4.6
17 reviews
Alison Robinson
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May 3, 2020
Classic Katie Fforde! Hetty Longden has lost her home, her boyfriend and her job when she discovers her boyfriend Alistair (and boss) in their bed with another woman, because he couldn't think of how to tell Hetty he'd found someone else! Her mother, being the interfering middle-class English mother that she is, finds Hetty a temporary position caretaking Great Uncle Samuel's decrepit stately home while he's in hospital. Drawn almost against her will into the life of the local village, Hetty and the villagers cook up a plan to make the house self-sufficient through visitor days, fairs, and dinners. There's added drama because Samuel's heir, Connor Barrabin who's living and working in Turkmenistan, wants to turn the whole place into a theme park. Just when things are going well Connor arrives the night before a car boot sale There's romance. strident villagers, glamorous neighbours with a heart of gold, grumpy heirs, nefarious loan sharks and errant boyfriends aplenty in this charming gentle romantic comedy.
mhairi G
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January 14, 2018
Really enoyed this book. You brought the characters to life...could not put it down..
About the author
Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and is a true country girl at heart. Each of her books explores a different profession or background and her research has helped her bring these to life. She’s been a porter in an auction house, tried her hand at pottery, refurbished furniture, delved behind the scenes of a dating website, and she's even been on a Ray Mears survival course. She loves being a writer; to her there isn’t a more satisfying and pleasing thing to do. She particularly enjoys writing love stories. She believes falling in love is the best thing in the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories. To find out more about Katie Fforde step into her world at www.katiefforde.com, visit her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @KatieFforde.
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