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Katie Fforde

Autor/a de Thyme Out

53+ obres 7,941 Membres 192 Ressenyes 23 preferits

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Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born on 27 September 1952 in Wimbledon, London. She is founder of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract. She was for many years a committee member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and was elected its twenty-fifth mostra'n més chairman (2009-2011) and later its fourth president. In June 2010 she was announced as a patron of the UK's first National Short Story Week. Many of Fforde's own experiences end up in her books. Her novel Going Dutch was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in June 2007. Her titles include Stately Pursuits, Going Dutch, The Undercover Cook, The Perfect Match and A Summer at Sea. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Katie Fforde

Thyme Out (1999) 489 exemplars
Stately Pursuits (1997) 473 exemplars
Highland Fling (2002) 461 exemplars
Practically Perfect (2006) 436 exemplars
Restoring Grace (2004) 435 exemplars
Wild Designs (1996) 412 exemplars
Life Skills (1999) 409 exemplars
Wedding Season (2008) 408 exemplars
Love Letters (2009) 400 exemplars
Flora's Lot (2005) 395 exemplars
Paradise Fields (2003) 375 exemplars
Artistic Licence (2001) 357 exemplars
Living Dangerously (1995) 354 exemplars
The Rose Revived (1995) 329 exemplars
Going Dutch (2007) 301 exemplars
A Perfect Proposal (2010) 294 exemplars
Summer of Love (2011) 195 exemplars
Recipe for Love (2012) 167 exemplars
A French Affair (2013) 155 exemplars
A Vintage Wedding (2015) 143 exemplars
A Summer at Sea (2016) 131 exemplars
The Perfect Match (2014) 112 exemplars
A Secret Garden (2017) 112 exemplars
A Country Escape (2018) 109 exemplars
A Rose Petal Summer (2019) 77 exemplars
A Springtime Affair (2020) 70 exemplars
A Wedding in the Country (2021) 53 exemplars
A Wedding in Provence (2022) 40 exemplars
Loves Me, Loves Me Not (2009) — Editor — 36 exemplars
Saving the Day (2021) 16 exemplars
One Enchanted Evening (2023) 15 exemplars
Flora's Lot [abridged audio] (2005) 7 exemplars
A Christmas in Disguise (2015) 6 exemplars
Life Skills | Thyme Out (2006) 3 exemplars
A szerelem titkos kertje (2017) 2 exemplars
Een betoverende avond (2024) 1 exemplars
Tökéletes ajánlat (2019) 1 exemplars
Tökéletes esküvő (2016) 1 exemplars
Hív Amszterdam (2008) 1 exemplars
Kevättä mielessä (2023) 1 exemplars
Katie Fforde Collection (2021) 1 exemplars

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Island in the Sun is a sweet and generally rather gentle story of Cass, a young woman charged by her father with travelling to Dominica to try and locate and photograph a petroglyph using a very old and hard to read map. In some ways it seems like rather an odd assignment for Cass but she has her father's friend, Ranulph, accompanying her and taking care of her. She finds herself very attracted to Ranulph but isn't sure if he feels the same.

It's clear that Katie Fforde loves the island of Dominica and she describes the hurricane-hit island very well. I must admit that I would have preferred more of the remote Scottish island where Cass's father lives but that's just because I have a thing about remote Scottish islands. Cass has a bit of a time of it on Dominica as a horrid man called Austin is also looking for the petroglyph and is determined to make her life difficult.

I found Island in the Sun to be an easy and unchallenging read and I enjoyed following Cass's journeys to Scotland and Dominica. I feel it lacked the charm of some of Fforde's other books, for instance I absolutely adored her last book, One Enchanted Evening, but I still felt like I wanted to see what happened, whether Cass would find the petroglyph, whether her feelings for Ranulph would be reciprocated and if she would get her life together, stop drifting, and stand up for herself against some of her rather overbearing family members and do what she wanted to do. As I say, sweet and gentle, with some rugged and enticing landscapes, a dastardly villain, romance, and an arty feel to the storyline.
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nicx27 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Feb 21, 2024 |
A cliché book with a cliché story and stereotypical characters. You'll be able to predict every plottwist from miles away. I guess this is your average chicklit.
 
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jd7h | Hi ha 15 ressenyes més | Feb 18, 2024 |
This isn't my number one genre, but I do like to pepper my reading list with the occasional romance for all its clicheness, predictability, inevitable happy-ever-after ending and if I'm honest, the cheesiness of it all!

This ticks all those boxes, it's true. We have the girl (Cass), we have the (older) man (Ranulph), a lovely sunny (bit prone to hurricanes) island (Dominica), there's the ex, and then there are the misunderstandings. All the right ingredients and although the dish comes out cooked, it's all a bit bland, lacking in spice.

Cass is annoying to the point you want to slap her and tell her to grow up and get over herself. The rest of the characters are all a bit like cardboard cut-outs with no substance or emotion. The Dominican setting is authentic (which the author explains at the end) and almost makes you want to put the island on your must-see list, so job well done there.

But I did enjoy the author's writing, and I was invested enough to see it through to the end. It's an above-average-edited book, which is refreshing, although the author or the editor got in a bit of pickle with step-siblings and half-siblings…probably best to clarify themselves on that one.

Not a 'wow, amazing' book, but a decent enough read.
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Librogirl | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jan 24, 2024 |
*2.5 stars*

Quintessential Kate FForde.

A Country Escape was a good beach read. The set up was a typical setting with the heroine taking on a new lease in life by tackling farming and she meets someone in the process. However, I didn't really get the farming aspect and I doubt Kate herself did too. LOL.

All in all, I didn't read this to get farming know how so lack of details didn't really bother me, but I will admit that some of the things that happened made me suspend my belief a little bit too much.

Thanks to The Publishers and NetGalley for the ARC
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DramPan | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Sep 6, 2023 |

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