Katie Fforde
2) Life skills
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English
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Julia Fairfax isn't quite herself today.
It's not like Julia to quit her job just because she was over for a promotion. Or to call off her engagement just because her fiance is a bore. And it's certainly not like her to pack her bags, sublet her house, board a rattletrap hotel boat, and pass herself off as a gourmet cook. It's just not like Julia to be so recklessly--and delightfully--in control.
And she's loving every minute of it...
But Julia's...
3) Wild designs
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English
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A domestic comedy on Althea Farraday, an English divorcee with three children who loses her job. Every cloud has a silver lining and Althea's has two. She discovers she can make a living from gardening, until then only a hobby, and a homosexual acquaintance becomes so impressed by her he gives up men to devote himself to Althea.
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English
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For years, things have run quite smoothly for Perdita and her organic gardening business. So what if her hair needs a complete overhaul, her sweater has more holes than Swiss cheese, and there's no hope of a boyfriend on the horizon? The last thing Perdita wants is a meddlesome man in her life-but she's about to get one, in the form of her completely infuriating ex-husband, Lucas.
Lucas in disagreeable, curt, arrogant, and smolderingly gorgeous....
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English
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A romantic comedy on Hetty, a woman house-sitting a mansion for a hospitalized uncle in England. On learning that Connor, a nephew, intends to raze it upon inheritance, Hetty organizes a campaign to preserve the mansion and it is war between niece and nephew, until love intervenes.
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English
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Grace Soudley's life is coming apart at the seams. Recently divorced, she is still living in the beautiful yet crumbling old house her godmother left her, but unless she can find a fortune, the house will disintegrate around her.
Artist Ellie Summers' life is unraveling too. She's pregnant, but her boyfriend is less than enthusiastic about parenthood, and her parents are not exactly inviting her to move back home. She has to come up with a new...
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English
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Single, thritysomething Thea traded her promising career as a photographer for the quiet countryside of the English Cotswalds. But when she meets a promising, sexy Irish painter while vacationing in Provence, her creative spirit is unexpectedly reawakened.
Impressed by Rory's charm, but even more taken by his talent, Thea is determined to showcase his paintings for the art world. Resisting his sex appeal, convincing him to forgo the London art...
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Deutsch
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Ein Rendezvous voller bezaubernder Missverständnisse auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt. Eine winterliche Hochzeitsreise wie im Märchen. Zwei drollige Hunde als Glücksboten für einen unvergesslichen Heiligabend.
In den englischen Cotswolds, wo beim Tanz der Schneeflocken in gemütlichen Cottages knisternde Kaminfeuer Behaglichkeit verströmen, entfaltet Katie Fforde Festtagsstimmung und jede Menge herzerwärmender Romantik.
15) The rose revived
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A novel on a trio of women working for London's Quality Cleaners, an establishment supplying maids with high-class accents to the well-to-do. The three are a novelist, an artist and the owner of a houseboat. The novel follows them as they wash dishes and scrub floors for the very rich, until after losing their jobs they set up a business of their own, finding fulfillment and romance.
16) A French affair
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Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Gina and Sally Makepiece have inherited a stall in the French House - an antiques centre nestled in the heart of the English countryside. Gina is determined to drag the French House and its grumpy owner into the twenty-first century. Bearing all the attributes of a modern-day Mr Rochester, Matthew Ballinger is less than happy with the whirlwind that has arrived on his doorstep. The last thing either of them want is to fall in love. But will a trip...
17) Recipe for love
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Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When Zoe Harper wins a coveted place in a televised cookery competition she's thrilled. It's a chance to cook her way to fame and fortune and the little delicatessen she's set her heart on. The first task has hardly begun when she finds herself with rather too much on her plate. Not only has she got to contend with the fiercely competitive and downright devious Cher, but she's fast developing an inconvenient crush on one of the judges - the truly...
19) A country escape
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Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
Fran has always wanted to be a farmer. And now it looks as if her childhood dream is about to come true. She has just moved in to a beautiful but very run-down farm in the Cotswolds, currently owned by an old aunt who has told Fran that if she manages to turn the place around in a year, the farm will be hers. But Fran knows nothing about farming. She might even be afraid of cows. She's going to need a lot of help from her best friend Issi, and also...
20) Artistic licence
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Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2001
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English
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Thea is fed up with being mother to a houseful of students and accepts an invitation from her bossy friend Molly to go on an art appreciation holiday in Provence. There she meets the gorgeous Rory, and decides to visit his house in Ireland, where she discovers a studio full of wonderful paintings.