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A Country Escape

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February 2018 Book of the Month.

A deliciously readable, entertaining and enjoyable novel from Katie Fforde. Fran leaves her life behind for a dilapidated farm in the Cotswolds, she has just one year to make it a success. I always rub my hands with glee when I pick up Katie Fforde’s new novels, I create some ‘me time’, and settle down to relax and sink into the pages. ‘A Country Escape’ flows so beautifully I forgot myself and where I was, I just became at one with the book and immersed myself completely in Fran’s world. Katie Fforde has a wonderfully light touch, I always feel I am in trusted hands, all of her characters are fascinating, relatable, and (mostly!) likeable. A Country Escape is quite simply, captivating, charming, and an absolute delight.

Liz Robinson

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A wonderful, heart-warming romance. Fran May inherits a dairy farm in the Cotswolds from a distant relative, but first she has to move there and run it successfully for a year. Will she succeed?

Fran is the only relative Mrs. Flowers could find. If Fran proves herself within a year, she will leave her Hill Top Farm and her beloved cows. Fran takes up the challenge and leaves her life as a chef in London behind. When she sees how run down the farm is though and it's sad financial situation, she really begins to wonder just what she has taken on. The characters are really lovely in this book. Fran knows nothing about farming and may even be a little afraid of cows, but she is determined to somehow save the farm and proves to be quite a gutsy character. Issi, Fran's best friend is a constant support and finds herself drawn not only to the farm and it's amazing pastures, but also to Tig, who is the herdsman. Then there is Anthony, the handsome next door neighbour.... Read Full Review

Adrienne Kinsella

A warm romantic novel that makes you want to move to the beautiful Cotswold countryside. A Country Escape is well paced, effortlessly written and deliciously funny.

A Country Escape is heartwarming tale of a town girl thrust into country life. Fran has the opportunity of finding out if she can turn a run-down farm into a going concern in exchange for the possibility of inheriting it from her distant aunt. Katie Fforde's novel pulls at your heartstrings and fills you with smiles. Her effortless writing makes the story speed along, with bumps and challenges along the way. Can Fran make the farm a success or will Roy (another distant cousin) inherit the farm? And is her neighbour Anthony up to no good?... Read Full Review

Heather Byrne

What a brilliant, romantic, heart-warming novel. Fran, a chef in the city, leaves her life behind to turn her hand to farming after she discovers that she is in line to inherit a family farm.

Excellent!! I have found a new author that I love! I have never read a Katie Fforde book before but I shall certainly be reading more after reading 'A Country Escape'. It is a brilliant, romantic, heartwarming novel about a city girl who leaves her job to prove that she can make a success of a run down family farm, which she is in line to inherit. Fran, the main character, has to think of ways to make the farm profitable after it has been losing money for years, run by an old distance female relative, Amy. Fran's country adventure is interwoven with friendship and romance. I didn't want this book to end as I was there, at the farm, enjoying the open countryside along with Fran, Issy, Tig and Anthony!... Read Full Review

Julie Evans