The French Guesthouse: be swept away by epic romance and drama, from the acclaimed author of The Orange House
Publishing Details
The French Guesthouse: be swept away by epic romance and drama, from the acclaimed author of The Orange House
By (Author) Isabelle Broom
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder Paperback
17th February 2026
6th November 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Family life fiction / Stories about family
Physical Properties
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
Description
Sometimes the only way to rebuild is to face the past you tried to escape...
On the night Fliss loses everything - her beloved hotel ravaged by fire and fiance exposed as a cheat - she receives devastating news: her estranged mother has died. They hadn't spoken in fifteen years and Fliss has stayed away for her own self-preservation. Summoned to a dilapidated guesthouse in France for the reading of the will, Fliss is stunned to discover she has been left all her mother's possessions. But the inheritance comes at a price - both literal and emotional. Sharing the house is Etienne, her mother's grief-stricken, wine-soaked partner, and his guarded yet magnetic nephew, Benoit. As Fliss begins restoring the guesthouse, she unearths long-buried secrets about her mother, their past and the true cost of her long absence. But to move forward, cure her guilt and claim the love and happiness she's never thought she deserves, Fliss must first reckon with the hardest question of all: can she forgiveA deeply poignant, richly compelling novel of complex relationships, generational trauma and our capacity to forgive, from the acclaimed author of The Summer Trip.Reviews
PRAISE FOR ISABELLE BROOM
You can feel the warmth coming off the pages . . . the most immersive, evocative love story -- Daisy Buchanan
This twisty, time-slipping romance . . . has a strong and sensuous sense of place; I could practically feel the sun and taste the tapas * DAILY MAIL *
Broom - as always - effortlessly transports you to sunnier climes and makes you fall in love with her characters * HEAT *
Powerful, moving, evocative -- Paige Toon
Deeply moving and full of heart -- Lucy Diamond
Author Bio
Isabelle Broom was born in Cambridge nine days before the 1980s began and studied Media Arts at university in London before a 12-year stint at Heat magazine. When she is not travelling all over the world seeking out settings for her escapist novels, Isabelle can mostly be found in Suffolk, where she shares a home with her two dogs and more books than she could ever hope to read in a lifetime.
