Katie Fforde

It`s 1968 and it`s cold when Felicity arrives in London to stay with her mother, improve her English, do a secretarial course - and meet a suitable man. She is already missing her home in Provence and her father and his new wife and their extended family. But it`s only for a year she tells herself...

It`s 1968 and it`s cold when Felicity arrives in London to stay with her mother, improve her English, do a secretarial course - and meet a suitable man. She is already missing her home in Provence and her father and his new wife and their extended family. But it`s only for a year she tells herself...

Anna has risked everything to buy and renovate her tiny but beautiful cottage set in the sleepy village of Amberford. The outside is perfect, but inside all is chaos: with a ladder for a staircase, no downstairs flooring, and only candles for lighting. It's no wonder that Anna's soon wondering...

Anna has risked everything to buy and renovate her tiny but beautiful cottage set in the sleepy village of Amberford. The outside is perfect, but inside all is chaos: with a ladder for a staircase, no downstairs flooring, and only candles for lighting. It's no wonder that Anna's soon wondering...