416 pages
Pub date: 17 July 2025
Women’s fiction-Romance
Five stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
My thoughts:
Do you ever need a book that offers feel good escape of the highest order? Will it matter if, at times, it seems more like a fairy tale than real life? Would you like a book with very appealing characters, a 60s set London, mudlarking, books, all kinds of relationships (mother-daughter; mother-stepmum; romantic; friendship)? If yes, this is the perfect book to pick up. I found it so easy and enjoyable to read, a true antidote to all that is going on in the world.
Highly recommended to fans of Katie Fforde and hopefully some new fans as well.
From the publisher:
A beautiful Chelsea town house. A chance to fulfil her dreams. A life adventure awaits…
”The queen of uplifting, feel good romance.” AJ Pearce
”A force to be reckoned with for her uplifting tales of romance” Daily Express
”Top-drawer romantic escapism.” Daily Mail
”Warm, brilliant and full of love.” Heat
”Warm, wise, witty and with a wonderful retro flavour, From London With Love is a trip to the city you won’t want to miss!” Lancashire Telegraph
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It’s 1968 and it’s cold when Felicity arrives in London to stay with her mother, improve her English, do a secretarial course – and meet a suitable man.
She is already missing her home in Provence and her father and his new wife and their extended family. But it’s only for a year she tells herself – and then she can go back to France and do what she really wants and become a painter.
And then she bumps into Oliver who is quite the most interesting young man she has ever met. He lives on a barge for one thing and has a collection of jobs, but his passion is looking for hidden treasures along the shores of the river Thames.
In a word, he’s a mudlarker – and before long Felicity is mudlarking too. She is also pursuing her dreams and painting scenery for Oliver’s actor friends.
But is Oliver a Suitable Man of whom her mother will approve? Felicity knows she will not …
Love, tangled relationships, and a real life adventure lie at the heart of Katie Fforde’s heart-warming new novel.
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