Katie Fforde lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and some of her three children. Recently her old hobbies of ironing and housework have given way to singing, Flamenco dancing and husky racing. She claims this keeps her fit.
Passed over (in favour of a man) in the house-agency department she's built, Julia storms out of her job, and engagement to boring Oscar, to become a cook on a pair of canal hotel-boats. But Oscar isn't giving up and when childhood enemy Fergus arrives on the scene Julia's in double-trouble and must hastily learn some new 'Life Skills'. As always, Fforde blows a fresh summer breeze through the old-fashioned Romantic Novel - in a setting made vivid by the author's personal experience. Great holiday read. (Kirkus UK)