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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I used to read her books all the time, but then… they all seemed the same. “Slightly chubby woman who doesn’t think she’s attractive to men, does something pretty amazing or is exceptionally witty, and catches the eye of the most hunky guy in the area, and then they fall in love, while the slightly chubby woman can’t believe that he’s giving her a second look.” This sounds a bit different… maybe! Thanks.
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