Practically Perfect

Katie Fforde

- 4.0 • 77 Ratings

- £5.99

- £5.99

Is home really where the heart is? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wedding Season, A Wedding in Provence and One Enchanted Evening.

'The queen of uplifting, feel good romance' AJ Pearce
'Top-drawer romantic escapism' Daily Mail
'Delicious - gorgeous humour and the lightest of touches' Sunday Times
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Anna has risked everything to buy and renovate a beautiful cottage.

The outside is perfect, but inside all is chaos: with a ladder for a staircase, no downstairs flooring, candles the only form of lighting and a sleeping bag and camping mat for a bed, Anna's soon wondering whether she's bitten off more than she can chew.

Her neighbour Chloe comes to the rescue, providing tea, wine and sympathy. But just as Anna's starting to believe she's found the perfect idyll, good-looking but impossible Rob Hunter arrives on the scene, putting up more obstacles than the Grand National.

Can Anna have it all? A dream house and the perfect man?
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The whole world loves Katie Fforde's work ...

'Modern-day Austen. Great fun' Red
'Warm, brilliant and full of love' Heat
'Effortlessly lovable, warm and fun' Closer
'Curl up on the sofa with this book and dream... delightful' The Lady
'Deliciously enjoyable' Woman and Home
'Uplifting and delightful' Hot Brands Cool Places

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 7 JAN 2008

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 it happens that Rob Hunter, the local greyhound "rehoming officer," is also the inspector who ensures that historical homes are properly restored. Though he initially is a thorn in her inexperienced renovator side, Anna comes to appreciate Rob's humor, warmth and caring nature. But then Max Gordon, the architecture guest lecturer Anna's had a crush on for years after a near-miss on getting together when she was in college, appears at her London reunion and seems poised to sweep her off her feet. The cast of country secondaries provides color and interest, and Fforde adroitly registers Anna's subtler feelings. But the pace is slow, and the renovation details overwhelm the romance.

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