Restoring Grace by Katie FfordeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Ellie Summers is pregnant and has fallen out of love with her boyfriend who still seems to think he's a college student. She earns a living painting watercolours of houses for their owners. One day she meets Grace Soudley, the owner of a beautiful William and Mary era country house. The two become unlikely friends and Grace offers Ellie a place to stay.
Grace is divorced from a serial-monogamist older husband. She inherited the house from her godmother but her older siblings inherited the furniture. After the divorce her ex-husband took all his antique furniture so Grace is living in a house with no furniture.
Ellie and Grace come up with a series of schemes to earn some money, including wine tasting and wine and dinner parties, but can love bloom in a sleepy village for a gun-shy divorcee?
Note to self, don't read Katie Fforde books back-to-back. The things I find charming become slightly irritating when you read books one after the other. Both of the heroes in this book were variously described as bossy and both of the heroines were happy to be infantilised, or if they weren't they made such stupid decisions that they deserved to be treated like children. Also, why do all of Kati Fforde's heroines seem to have such awful siblings?
I did enjoy this sweet English romance but next time I'll read something different as a palate cleanser before trying another Katie Fforde book.
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