One Enchanted Evening: The uplifting and charming Sunday Times Bestselling Debut by Anton Du Beke

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Whether it's styling you to perfection, helping you pick the perfect accessories, or crying happy tears with you - to us, it's all about the experience! Seeing how hard they fought to be a voice heard, to be accepted in a male dominated world, it’s eye opening, especially, for me it a world that my mother grew up in and must of had similar experiences.

This is not high quality literature, but if you’re after slow, predictable love and a cheery can do attitude that saves a stately home then you’re in the right place! Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born 27 September 1952 in England, UK, the daughter of Shirley Barbara Laub and Michael Willoughby Gordon-Cumming. Then her mother, who is the live-in housekeeper at a stately home turned hotel in Dorset begs her to come and help out. Many of her friends, quite a few of whom I recognised from A Wedding in Provence, make appearances too and everybody is jolly lovely….In the 2001 London revival of the show, Philip Quast won an Olivier Award for Best Actor for his role as Emile, [5] and seven years later, international opera singer Paulo Szot won a Tony for his portrayal in the 2008 New York revival. In fact, this is the first book of hers in recent years that reminds me of her early novels which I have read many times over.

I sound like a horrible person, but a lot about Meg's conflict-and-solutions are a bit too convenient as well. I loved the setting in Dorset and when I thought it a tad old-fashioned, I remembered it was set in the 1960s. Along the way, you get to know a lovely cast of characters, with a sprinkling of nasty people to make your hackles rise.Of course, there are cameos from the other key characters and it was a treat to learn more about their ongoing lives. It casts an eye back to the grand days of country house life, and forward to the way the world was changing in the 1960s in a number of ways - especially in cuisine. Just when things can't get more fraught, in walks Justin the very handsome, but misogynistic , son of the owner of the hotel. Meg and Louise now need to get some staff back, with the help of long time resident of the hotel Ambrosine who does the flowers, picked fresh from the hotels gardens, they manage to bring back some locals to help.

One Enchanted Evening picks up the story from Katie Fforde's previous books A Wedding in the Country and A Wedding in Provence, this time concentrating on Meg's story.She is sure that this could be just the place for guests who would appreciate its charms, if only a few careful improvements could be arranged. I thought some of the characters were lovely, such as the elderly and mysterious Ambrosine, and I even enjoyed the stereoptypes too, who I think were written a bit tongue-in-cheek.