Katie Fforde, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-27304-0
British author Fforde's sixth novel is an extremely good-natured, if rather predictable, romantic comedy. "Well, at least I'm completely over him," Perdita, an unattached organic gardener who's approaching 30, prophetically...
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Katie Fforde, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-33332-4
Romance blooms for a long-celibate widow in this cozy potboiler by British hen-lit veteran Fforde (Highland Fling
; etc.). Nel Innes has kept busy in the 10 years since her beloved husband died, raising her three children (the youngest of whom, 18-ye
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Katie Fforde, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-312-35877-8
This lighthearted British romance has all the elements of a modern fairy tale: a huge, empty, centuries-old house left by a godmother, an evil older sister and a beleaguered (former) stepdaughter. But despite the fairy tale trappings, the heart of...
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Katie Fforde, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (390p) ISBN 978-0-312-35963-8
This 12th romance from Britisher Fforde (Restoring Grace
) features a heroine as flintily naïve as she is endearing. Upon inheriting 51% of the Stanza and Stanza antique auction business from her uncle Clodio, Flora Stanza sublets her London...
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Katie Fforde, Author . St. Martin’s $24.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-312-37854-7
In the less than sprightly latest from Fforde (Restoring Grace
), newly minted interior designer Anna, 27, is renovating a run-down cottage in the Cotswold to flip for a profit. At her neighbor’s request, she takes in a homeless greyhound, and
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Katie Fforde, Author . St. Martin's $24.99 (424p) ISBN 978-0-312-60017-4
Fforde (Practically Perfect
) disappoints with the predictable, formulaic, and unrealistic story of three unlucky-in-love women who work in the wedding industry: Sarah, a wedding planner; Elsa, a dressmaker; and Bron, a hairdresser. Sarah is still...
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Katie Fforde, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14040-3
It's Cinderella time for the three housecleaning heroines of this charming romance, the stateside debut of British novelist Fforde (Living Dangerously). Fiercely independent May Sargent needs a job to pay overdue mooring fees on her houseboat, the...
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Katie Fforde, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-20951-3
A seven-foot-wide, 70-foot-long hotel boat that cruises from London to Birmingham provides the off-beat setting for this breezy romantic novel by British author Fforde (Stately Pursuits). As the story opens, 34-year-old Julia Fairfax has just...
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Katie Fforde, St. Martin's, $25.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-67453-3
Hardworking author Fforde's (Wedding Season) latest delivers a cute but meandering story with a Nora Ephron feel. A chance meeting gives quiet bookshop clerk Laura Horsley a chance to organize a literary festival. Though Laura is initially unsure of
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Katie Fforde, Author, Barnard, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-15693-0
The pleasure in reading Fforde's new novel lies in the mounting she'll-show-'em expectations as the book becomes a modern Cinderella tale about a good-hearted, underappreciated supermom in her late 30s. Althea Farraday can grow a lemon tree from a...
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Katie Fforde, Author, Forde, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-18668-5
Cheery, good-natured and predictable, British writer Fforde's latest stylish romance (after Wild Designs) relates the story of a young, freshly jilted and heartbroken protagonist, Hetty Longden, who gets more than she bargained for when she agrees...
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