Hardback: 383 pages
Genre: Contemporary Romantic Fiction
Publisher: Century 2023
Source: Tywyn Public Library
First Sentences: Just for a moment, Meg was on her own on the station platform. She had travelled travelled into deepest Dorset and it felt like another world.
Review Quote: 'This enjoyable read will appeal to die-hard romantics' Heat Magazine
Setting: Dorset, England
My Opinion: When I want to read some romantic fiction, Katie Fforde is an author I turn to first. As I have been reading and enjoying her novels since 1995, I think I can safely say her writing never fails to provide just what I need at the time. Romantic escapism.
This time we are taken back to Dorset, England in the nineteen sixties, when the pace of life seemed so much slower than it does today. The main characters are Meg, who has appeared in earlier novels and Justin with whom she develops a love hate relationship. The story is very much a reflection on how different things were for young career orientated women in the sixties.
Recommended as a perfect read for when one is in the mood for a readable romance, with the inevitable happy ending. Relax and enjoy.
Précis Courtesy of Goodreads:
Ever since she can remember, Meg has wanted to be a professional cook.
But it's 1966, and in restaurant kitchens all over England it is still a man's world.
Then she gets a call from her mother who is running a small hotel in Dorset.
There's an important banqueting event coming up. She needs help and she needs it now!
When Meg arrives, the hotel seems stuck in the past. But she loves a challenge, and sets to work.
Then Justin, the son of the hotel owner, appears, determined to take over the running of the kitchen.
Infuriated, Meg is determined to keep cooking - and soon sparks between them begin to fly.
Will their differences be a recipe for disaster? After all, the course of true love never did run smooth...
Previous Reviews: Flora's Lot Summer of Love Recipe for Love The Perfect Match
A Rose Petal Summer A Wedding in Provence
Author Profile:
Courtesy of Goodreads Profile
Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born 27 September 1952 in England, UK and she lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire. She is the daughter of Shirley Barbara Laub and Michael Willoughby Gordon-Cumming. Her grandfather was Sir William Gordon-Cumming. Her sister is fellow writer Jane Gordon-Cumming. Katie married Desmond Fforde, cousin of the also writer Jasper Fforde. She has three children: Guy, Francis and Briony and didn't start writing until after the birth of her third child. She has previously worked both as a cleaning lady and in a health food cafe.
Published since 1995, her romance novels are set in modern-day England. She is the founder of the "Katie Fforde Bursary" for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract. Katie was elected the twenty-fifteenth Chairman (2009-2011) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. She is delighted to have been chosen as Chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association and says, "Catherine Jones was a wonderful chair and she's a very tough act to follow. However, I've been a member of the RNA for more years than I can actually remember and will have its very best interests at the core of everything I do."
Photographs and Biographical Information courtesy of the following sites:
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