Slightly too long (Editors! Please step it up! And, writers! Please listen to your editors), but overall very enjoyable. This is classic chick lit, and I mean that in a good - even great - sense. As a baby, Betsy was left on the doorstep of a London finishing school and subsequently adopted by th...
I LOVED this book! It was a super fun, real-life fairy tale. The smart and witty writing from this British author, Hester Browne, has become one of my new favorites. It is a notch or two above the typical "feel good" book. A British gardener starts dating a real-life prince; this story tells ...
By the time I was 3/4 of the way through this, I was ready for it to end, but all.in.all it was a good, perhaps more realistic view of the real.life.fairy.tale thing. There were a few plot points which were predictable in the sense that I thought they were possible, rather than probable. The fact...
Evie Nicholson loves antiques and is working for a dealer when she gets the opportunity to value family heirlooms at Kettlesheer Castle in Scotland. A daydreamer and a romantic, Evie's imagination goes into hyper-drive when she learns that she will be at the castle at the same time as traditiona...
What a lovely wee romance novel this is. Hester has given us a nice mix of modern girl bumbling around a family's antiques which uncovers a love story from the past. There is a perfect balance played out between the two time periods - heavy on the modern, light and just enough on the historical...
I received this book as a giveaway on goodreads for an honest review. I'd give this a 4.5 stars if I could but I can't so I rounded down to four! The best part about the whole book was the humour, I was chuckling away to myself out loud and smiling at popular references (which are always a love o...
He loved the hysterical hours before a big event. If he could have run the dinner with a series of whistles and commands, he would have done. Araminta was probably lining up right now to have her clipboards inspected, I mused, as I squeezed myself into my outfit for the evening: a crimson satin c...