Pastures Nouveaux

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Artist Rosie dreams of a peaceful country cottage. Her ambitious journalist boyfriend Mark, meanwhile, is aiming for a big piece of Islington. A house, in fact, like rampantly nouveau riche Samantha's, a has-been film star determined to become a country house chatelaine, despite the opposition of London-loving husband Guy. But circumstances dramatically change: Rosie gets her romantic cottage, while social-climbing Samantha becomes lady of the biggest manor she can find. Yet village life is anything but predictable. A farmer fatale threatens to ruin Rosie's relationship, while Samantha's ramraid on rural high society runs into problems. In the meantime, a fantastically nosy postman, a ferret-racing former Bond girl, a ghost with a knife in its back and a handsome but hermit-like rock star conspire to ensure that life - and especially love - is never the same again.

Reviews

'Pacy pastiche of city dwellers "gone country"...packed with puns... Holden has produced an entertaining novel, bursting with a large cast of Diblyesque characters, which will no doubt delight fans of her two previous books' Daily Mail

'Clever, naughty and basically affectionate and good-natured.... a comic romp engineered with aplomb and dash... will have fans glued' Sunday Times

'A very modern romantic comedy... her cultural references are spot-on... an amusing romp through village life' Mail On Sunday

'On days of gloom Wendy Holden's novels should be handed round like aspirin. Her new book, Pastures Nouveaux, is guaranteed to bring a smile even to the baddest of moods... Discover the hills are alive with the sound of high jinks in this laugh-a-minute romp' B magazine

'A light-hearted rustic romp' Mirror

'A pun-packed romp' Eve

'A hilariously outrageous romp that takes the gloss off those countryside daydreams' Cosmopolitan

Author Bio

Number one bestselling author Wendy Holden has written ten consecutive Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. A former journalist on the Sunday Times, Tatler and the Mail on Sunday, she contributes to a range of publications and is a TV and radio regular. She was a judge for the Costa 2013 Novel and Book of the Year Awards. Wendy lives with her husband and two children in Derbyshire.

Visit her on her website www.wendyholden.net, or follow her on Twitter @Wendy_Holden and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wendyholdenauthor.