Book description
A combination of overwork and jet-leg propels Julia Fairfax into
becoming engaged to a golf-playing wine buff called Oscar. But when
she realises that she has fonder feelings for his adorable Labrador
than for Oscar himself, she is forced to confront the fact that there
is something drastically wrong. Ditching her fiancé and jacking in
her job, she decides to revolutionise her life.
Her new career as a cook on a pair of hotel boats is certainly a
departure, and teaches her more about life than how to get a couple of
narrow boats through a lock. But even afloat, Julia's past catches up
with her. Not only must she contend with the persistent Oscar (not to
mention his frightful mother and her own mother's determined
matchmaking), but also the arrival of her childhood enemy, the
enigmatic Fergus Grindley...
Katie Fforde lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and some of
her three children. Recently her old hobbies of ironing and housework
have given way to singing, Flamenco dancing and husky racing. She claims
this keeps her fit.
