One Enchanted Evening: From the #1 bestselling author of uplifting feel-good fiction

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Easily accessible as it is textured, she has managed to amass herself a sizable audience throughout the many years of her career.

One Enchanted Evening - Penguin Books UK

One walk-on who didn't say anything was randomly named Ted, and then we had Edward/Teddy mentioned later on who was a completely different but far more important person.

v=1668085692","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":27351114023067,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0. Louise had been hired as a receptionist and office manager, but now it’s down to her to run the place. One Enchanted Evening is set in the 1960s, I did love the descriptions of Nightingale Woods hotel in the beautiful countryside of Dorset.

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I absolutely adored this book as much as the previous instalments that helped us navigate through the ongoing lives of this trio of novice cooks. I have read loads of this authors books many years ago and I saw this one on NetGalley and remembered loving her books so I put in my request. I have read a few Katie Fforde novels so was excited to be given the opportunity to read her latest release. Along the way, you get to know a lovely cast of characters, with a sprinkling of nasty people to make your hackles rise. Such that near the climax I just felt like we were just going through plot-point to plot-point without addressing the emotional beats alongside it.This story follows the uncertainty of the hotels future, Megs love of the beautiful old building, her often thwarted attempts to entice more guests and bring the building up to date without spoiling it's integrity, of Meg and Justin gradually falling in love, the heartbreak when she leaves for France, the love and support of her brilliant close band of friends. Sure you have to suspend disbelief a little bit to think that a coat of paint, a bunch of flowers, and a few new cushion covers will miraculous make the hotel more inviting, but much is made of the homely (in the good sense) atmosphere, more of a home-from-home than a hotel, somewhere the aristocracy can stay while attending social events in the area. Louise and Andrew were a lovely couple too, the mother daughter relationship was written really well, especially with the age difference not huge. The problem is that the proprietor is a fairly stubborn sort named Matthew Ballinger who doesn’t want to change the status-quo and alter things for them.