One Enchanted Evening

Oct 18, 2024 2:26 PM

Author:Katie Fforde

Step into the world of Katie Fforde where love, romance and the happiest of happy endings are just around the corner. The new novel by the number one bestselling author and queen of feel-good romance.

'A delicious confection of patisserie and passion' Daily Mail Must Reads

'A joy of a read' Bella

'Another delightful read. Fforde never disapoints' Weekly

'This is theperfect Mother's Day read' Take a Break

'This enjoyable read willappeal to die-hard romantics' Heat Magazine

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Ever since she can remember, Meg has wanted to be a professional cook.

But it's 1966, and in restaurant kitchens all over England it is still a man's world.

Then she gets a call from her mother who is running a small hotel in Dorset.

There's an important banqueting event coming up. She needs help and she needs it now!

When Meg arrives, the hotel seems stuck in the past. But she loves a challenge, and sets to work.

Then Justin, the son of the hotel owner, appears, determined to take over the running of the kitchen.

Infuriated, Meg is determined to keep cooking - and soon sparks between them begin to fly.

Will their differences be a recipe for disaster? After all, the course of true love never did run smooth...

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Readers love One Enchanted Evening . . .

***** 'One Enchanted Evening is a literary hug that filled me with a comforting warmth and made me crave for more.'

***** 'Iloved this book so much that I devoured it in a day and a half. The characters were very well rounded and youinstantly become invested in the storyline, the characters, and the beautiful old hotel.'

*****'A lovely relaxing read, perfect for a winters day, or for that matter as a holiday read!'

***** 'One Enchanted evening is everything you need in a novel when the weather outside demands you snuggle under a blanket with a good book.'

***** 'This is a nice, escapist tale.'

Reviews

Clever, poignant, and satisfying

—— Sunday Times bestseller Katie Fforde

Oh boy did I love Hello, Stranger, a moving and surprising love story

—— Gillian McAllister, Sunday Times bestselling author of Wrong Place, Wrong TIme

Poignant, profound and yet written with a light touch - Marks has done it again. The story engages from the off . . . This is a heartbreaking and heart-warming story

—— Woman

An eminently real and relatable love story about the tussle between head, heart and the costs of holding on to your own truth. Rachel Marks has perfectly captured the pleasure, pain and poignancy of being human - Lucy and Jamie had me at Hello...

—— Julietta Henderson, author of Richard and Judy pick The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman

Heart-warming . . . Lovely and thought-provoking

—— Hello!

A book to cancel plans for - we're still not over the ending

—— Closer

A heartbreaking and heartwarming read that deals sensitively with difficult issues

—— Woman's Weekly

A modern love story that's heartbreakingly tender & poignant. It kept me guessing & hoping until the last page. A fabulous read

—— Sophie Claire, author of A Winter’s Dream

Praise for Rachel Marks

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Wise and wonderful. I adored it

—— Miranda Dickinson, Sunday Times bestselling author

Rachel Marks packs a novel with all the emotions - hope, fear, love, despair and - ultimately - joy

—— Clare Pooley, bestselling author of The Authenticity Project

Heartbreaking, heartwarming, perfect

—— Rosie Goodwin, Sunday Times bestselling author

Heartbreaking and hopeful; this book is a keeper

—— Woman's Weekly

Unpredictable and satisfying

—— Heidi Swain, Sunday Times bestselling author

Beautifully uplifting and at times unexpected

—— OK!

As tender and emotional as it is funny, it made me laugh out loud A LOT, and it made me sob

—— Cressida McLaughlin, bestselling author of The Cornish Cream Tea Bus

Heartbreaking, funny and emotive

—— Sun

Dazzling

—— Essentials

Fans of Ian McEwan should rejoice with this arrival of this novel, because Sweet Tooth is McEwan's finest work since 2001's Atonement

—— Kevin Power , Sunday Business Post

Given McEwan’s ability to make riveting fiction out of English politics (not easy), it would be hard to imagine anyone better equipped to write such a story... Delicious... Gripping

—— James Lasdun , Guardian

His assumption of a female persona is pitch-perfect

—— Michael Arditti , Daily Mail

Had McEwan, through Serena’s benefit of hindsight in narrating her life, planted the clues? Let every reader have the pleasure of finding out

—— Ion Trewin , Sunday Express

An artful game of distortion... Clever handling

—— Anthony Quinn , Mail on Sunday

A curious piece of autobiographical fiction

—— David Sexton , Evening Standard

A wisecracking thriller hightailing between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in... This is ultimately a book about writing, wordplay and knowingness

—— Catherine Taylor , Sunday Telegraph

No contemporary novelist is more enthralled by what goes on inside the human skull than Ian McEwan... Sweet Tooth, which juxtaposes contrasting casts of mind, reminds you that, as well as intelligence, the intelligence service fascinates McEwan... Always excellent at conjuring up places and periods on the cusp of dramatic change... McEwan atmospherically resurrects the strife-ridden Britain of 1972 -73... Similarities and contrasts between the mentality and mind games of the secret service and those of the creative writer are increasingly brought to the fore. Doubling back and forth across genre boundaries, Sweet Tooth takes risks: narrative loiterings and twists whose purpose isn’t at first apparent, a payoff that is long delayed. But – ideally read more than once – this acute, witty novel is a winningly cunning addition to McEwan’s fictional surveys of intelligence

—— Peter Kemp , Sunday Time

Must read... Intrigue, love and mutual betrayal by a master of the art

—— The Lady

The great thing about McEwan is that, despite his success, he continues to work hard, producing ever more accessible and entertaining stories

—— Henry Sutton , Daily Mirror

Carefully researched

—— John Scarlett , Daily Telegraph

McEwan, as always, presents an engaging narrator... The plot is fantastic... McEwan plays with the readers expectations, and surpasses them all with a fabulous ending that makes me itch to re-read this superb novel all over again. Sweet Tooth marks another triumph for a brilliant British author

—— Bookgeeks.co.uk

A pleasing, tricksy beast with a subsumed sense of metatextuality likely to be pleasing to his fans

—— Bookmunch

Adroitly done...highly diverting

—— D.J. Taylor , Literary Review

A triumphant shedding of genre limitations

—— Adam Mars-Jones , London Review of Books

This most cunning of authors entertains and manipulates his readers. Sweet Tooth is a masterclass in the art of fiction

—— Paul Sidey , Book Oxygen

Ian McEwan is getting better and better… Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

McEwan’ssmoothly contrived thriller hightails between love and betrayal, with serious counter-espionage credentials thrown in

—— Sunday Telegraph Seven

An expertly crafted thriller written with a bucketload of suspense and wit

—— Hannah Britt , Daily Express

As richly textured as anything Ian McEwan has written

—— Mai

Brilliantly cunning… It’s a story of love, betrayal and duplicity, with the most startling deception reserved for the final pages

—— Mail on Sunday (You)

Playful, clever, knowing and full of stories

—— Absolutely Chelsea

Supremely tense, intellectually sharp, and honed as hell

—— William Leith , Scotsman

Beyond virtuoso twists and turns, McEwan lays out the foreign landscape of 40 years ago – from smoky pubs to fuming punditry – with wry, affectionate panache

—— Boyd Tonkin , i

Tricksy, but satisfying

—— Justin Cartwright , Observer

The sense of narrative purpose exerts its pull from the first

—— John Mullan , Guardian

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