Book description
'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...
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.
