One Enchanted Evening

A delightful tale focusing on a family run failing hotel in rural Dorset with delightful characters. Meg is an aspiring chef, at a time when women were ‘cooks’ and only men were ‘chefs’ and when her mother, as manager of the hotel, requests her support she jumps on a train. Within 30 minutes of arriving she finds that the hotel owner is off in France, the obnoxious chef has fired most of the staff and after a tantrum when his suppliers let him down walks out on the eve of a large banquet. What can she do but take over and save the day? But is the owner’s son happy with her? Not at all, he is all condescension and rudeness when he turns up and tries to throw her out of the kitchen.I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

A lovely romantic tale in the Katie Fforde manner.I love that I can relie on Fforde to write a romantic tale, where girl meets boy and falls in love.Three and a half stars

𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂Meg’s mother Louise has asked her to come help her at the Dorset country hotel that she runs. The chef has run off at the last minute but Meg is capable and resourceful and soon has things on track. It’s the 1960’s, the hotel is run down former family home within en suite bathrooms, which is a challenge. Meg ropes in friends and family to help bring the hotel into modern times, with the support of the owner’s difficult son Justin.𝓜𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓼I haven’t read a Katie Fforde book in a very long time. Set in the 1960’s, there is still an austerity in the air and some outdated thinking, that Meg is more than happy to challenge! I enjoyed her vibrant can-do approach to life, the joy she gets from her friends. I did feel like she jumped from one minute detesting Justin to realising she has feelings for him with little actually happening.I read an eARC copy courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher.

Katie Fforde never fails to please - yet again really enjoying one of her books, recommend.

Katie Fforde is one of my favourite writers. Since I have read her first book, I kept buying all of them and none of them have disappointed me. I was wondering if I would like the stories that take place in the past, like the 3 last ones and it turns out, they're equally nice to read as the other ones.Please keep going, Katie.

Simply stunning, The little story that accompanied each beautiful illustration of a dress or outfit, the detail in the drawing are beyond wonderful, Such a beautiful book in any fashion lovers arsenal

Thoroughly enjoyed this book read it over a weekend, loved the descriptive cooking also the scenic house keep writing Katie Fforde

Ich habe dieses Buch gekauft, weil im Klappentext eine Romanze im Mittelpunkt steht, allerdings (ACHTUNG SPOILER) passiert diese sehr schnell auf den letzten 100 Seiten - ohne einen wirklichen Aufbau, der sich lohnt.Der Schreibstil ist okay, allerdings ein wenig zu "heile Welt" für mich.