
A Rose Petal Summer
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Narrated by:
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Jilly Bond
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By:
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Katie Fforde
About this listen
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‘Thank goodness for Katie Fforde, the perfect author to bring comfort in difficult times. She really is the queen of uplifting, feel good romance.’ AJ PEARCE
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IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE...
Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland.
She’s answered an ad in The Lady: being a companion to an elderly gentleman who lives in a country estate could be perfect! Surely it's time to make a change and do something different for a while?
The fact that she may also see Alec, the young man who she met some years previously and who she has always thought of as her ‘one who got away’, is of course purely incidental.
Soon Caro is falling in love - not only with Alec but with the stunning country house she's now living in. But the estate is in financial difficulties, and Caro soon realises there's only one way to rescue it.
So begins a magical romantic summer, one that will take Caro from Scotland to London and the south of France, in search of a classic lost perfume that might just restore all their fortunes.
Romance, humour, a cast of warm and totally believable characters and the tantalising possibility of happily-ever-after? It must be a Katie Fforde novel.
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The whole world loves Katie Fforde's work:
'Like a good wedding, it will leave you wiping away the tears' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'Modern-day Austen. Great fun' RED
'Katie’s writing is life-enhancing and, like the love affairs, delicious. I enjoyed every minute!' ELIZABETH BUCHAN
'Top-drawer romantic escapism' DAILY MAIL
'Warm, brilliant and full of love' HEAT
'Delicious - gorgeous humour and the lightest of touches' SUNDAY TIMES
'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
I wasn't madly keen on Jilly Bond's rather 'mumsy' delivery in this book, it rather grated on me bringing a picture to my mind of a sixth form prefect rather than an attractive young woman. I liked her better in A Summer at Sea, and I'm not sure why. It was something to do with the emphasis on on the last syllable of so many words? Such a 'no nonsense' approach - can Jilly do wistful, I wonder? I couldn't reconcile the picture her voice brought to my mind with the words I was hearing.
I won't dwell on the plot, it was a light romance so we know girl will get man from the moment they meet. That's why we read them, I suppose. I must say that the likelihood of such a man making perfumes did seem a long stretch of the imagination, but it was an interesting subject. So difficult to find new ideas for plots! And I had to suspend belief with the rather unlikely immediate friendship with the starlet and her producer husband-to-be.
Katie Fforde mostly is pretty reliable, apart from one or two midway in her career, when I thought they were getting a little too Mills and Boonish, but she is well and truly back on track these days, and doesn't disappoint. I enjoyed the book on the whole, although some of her other novels were better.
Interesting storyline, a fraction over long.
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brilliant
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Good Listening
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Katie's books are some of my favourites and I always feel as though I miss the characters once the book is finished.
I could read about these people all the time.
What a beautiful book.
I didn't want it to end
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Katie fjorde fashion
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Enchanting
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A Rose Petal Summer
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not too keen on the narrator.
Love rekindled
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Lovely escapism
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One of those books to listen to whilst working away or doing chores or like myself trying to get to sleep .
Narration is great jilly is so suited to Katie fforde and really does bring the characters to life
Audible can we please have a release of both highland fling and thyme out read by jilly
A must for fforde fans
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