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Stately pursuits

Stately pursuits

by Katie Fforde

Country homesCountry lifeEnglandFictionYoung women
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

From: http://www.katiefforde.com/books/info/?e=9780099446682&t=Stately-Pursuits '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...

Themes & subjects

Country homesCountry lifeEnglandFictionYoung womenFiction, romance, contemporary

Setting

England

About the author

Katie Fforde
Katie Fforde

27 September 1952

Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born 27 September 1952 in London, England, UK. She studied the arts, cookery, typing, and shorthand. In 1972, Katie married with Desmond Fforde, cousin of the also writer Jasper Fforde. The marriage set up business on the canals. She had three children: Guy, Francis and Briony and didn't start writing before she had the third of them. She has previously worked both as a cleening lady and in a health food cafe. Published since 1995, her romance novels are set in modern-day England. She is 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 Roman…

Author

Katie Fforde

Pages

279

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

6

Language

English

Publisher

ARROW (RAND)

ISBN

9780786115754

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