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found that this story took me a while to get into but once I did it was definitely addictive I really wanted to find out what Polly would decide to do with her life.


Polly is a cautious character who is happy living the single and celibate life, she had some not so great experiences when she was younger and this has left her unwilling to jump into the dating scene.
Her friends and mother all urge her to give men a chance and they keep trying to set her up, this has some funny consequences that had me laughing out loud.


There were many great characters in this story Tristan is cheeky and persistent with a unscrupulous edge, Patrick is a young, misunderstood boy who I thought was actually really nice and had a good head on his shoulders.
David is a character who I continually changed my mind about, I disliked him then liked him, then disliked him then liked him again! Hes a gentleman but also very mysterious, he doesnt always show his true feelings and to me this sometimes came across as being rather arrogant.


I have to admit that some of the decisions Polly made confused me, she seemed to push people away without giving them a chance and I couldnt see the reason for it.
I really did like her character though and I found myself getting annoyed with her for having so much self doubt,

This is a lovely light book that is great for curling up on the sofa with, perfect escapism, I will definitely be reading more from Katie Fforde, I'm torn between giving this three and four, I did enjoy reading this book, but for me, there probably wasn't enough of the hero on the page, And when he was on the page, albeit it was from Polly's POV, I was never sure if he was "attractive" enough he did have his moments when he was though.


I suppose this book didn't grab me like some others have, and I'm thinking about the characters even when I'm not reading it, However, it delivers the HEA ending we all want in a romance, and I did empathise with Polly throughout the story,

It's riddled with witty humour, which gave me laugh out loud moments, so definitely an enjoyable read, Awesome book, it went totally the unexpected way, but the good way : Love will find a way, A wonderfully romantic novel from the No,Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match,

Polly Cameron is happy being thirtyfive and celibate, living in a small Gloucestershire town with a possessive cat for company and a Rayburn for comfort.
After all, a relationship would only complicate things, . .

But Polly's life is already complicated, In addition to her job in the Whole Nut café and her part in the 'Save Our High Street' campaign, there's her pottery career to get off the ground.
Not to mention dodging the efforts of her friends and mother to find her a husband, . Enjoyable. A typical chiclit. When your brain wants a quick chocolatey sugary fix, this is for you, Though its cover illustrator obviously hasn't read the book, Polly's not that skinny as in the cover, Ik heb vaker boeken gelezen van Katie Fforde, Hoewel haar boeken geen hoogdravende literatuur zijn, heb ik wel van haar boeken genoten, Dat kan ik over dit boek niet zeggen, Er zitten wat leuke stukjes in, Daarom heb ik het twee sterren gegeven, Verder is het zon clichéverhaal en Polly echt een tuthola, Ondanks de leuke mannen in haar leven blijft ze maar volhouden dat ze liever single is, Ook zeurt ze over het feit dat ze bepaalde dingen niet kan, omdat ze arm is en ondertussen zegt ze dat ze niet om geld geeft, Dit boek vind ik geen aanrader, Three and a half,

Gah! Forgot what I wanted to say about this book, Polly is ayear old single woman, she works at a health food shop and has dreams of making a living from her pottery, She bumps into an old school 'friend' who invites her to a dinner party, All of the other guests and the hosts are wealthy middleclass and fairly smug, especially the single man, David, Later Polly comes to know David better through acquaintance with his rebellious teenage son Patrick,

There is a love triangle/square between Polly, a journalist called Tristan, David and his son Patrick, although I think most readers can see which way Polly is going to jump.
I understand that this was Katie Fforde's first novel and it exhibits some rather dated views of how a hero should behave, at times I thought David was like a teenage boy in his ridiculous jealousy when he wasn't even dating Polly that sort of behaviour screams stalker to me.
Also, as I have mentioned previously, Katie Fforde doesn't really flesh out her heroes, they remain shadowy characters whose motivations are vague and never truly explained, David is no different.

If you like novels where friends and family are desperately trying to set our heroine up with a man, she's artsy and involved in saving a local parade of shops from being torn down by developers, where there are snobby dinner parties and surly teenagers and scary housekeepers you'll love this.
I always feel slightly mean giving a bookstar but I have to say I didn't enjoy this book and I think the worst part of it was I felt like it COULD quite easily have been a book I enjoyed if the characters communicated even slightly better throughout the majority of the book instead of perpetually arguing and yet insisting they were in love with the other in a way that just felt rather confusingly rushed.
I'll be honest, though, the main thing that put me off and threw me out of the story were the sex scenes I'm not a fan in general but these were just so awfully graphic and yet terribly clinical.
Also, have to say whilst it is acceptable, if cliche to describe a man's physique as like a 'greek statue', describing his privae parts as 'like a greek statue' implies something rather less flattering.


I'm sorry. I wanted to like it but I found myself growing to dislike the characters with their perpetual bad tempers and very odd ideas about being in love, OKAY SO this very easily could have been aor even astar read until it took a hard swerve into Problematicville, very much showing its age, I've had a mountain of my mom's old Katie Fforde books for ages, and I've been meaning to read them my whole life, Yesterday the urge gripped me after twenty or so years of seeing them around, I picked Living Dangerously at random and was instantly engaged,

Fforde's writing is HILARIOUS, witty, and nimble, Her books are cozily, clunkily, oldfashionedly English, with lots of talk of AGAs and Rayburns and public schools and English Warms and Wellingtons and tea kettles, I loved the main character, and I even quite liked the main dude, BUT OH GOODNESS, does the fact that this was written inshow up in GRAND FASHION near the end, when Fforde has the hero who, up until this point, was sort of lovely and stuffy and vERY INTENSELY STIFF UPPER LIP BRITISH develop this terrifying and horrid and sexist temper and all these absolutely terrible randomly abusive things and OOF and NO and ARGH

and WHY and WHERE DID THIS COME FROM and CRINGE

So, yes, delightful and hilarious and made me laugh out loud many a time, but oh dear, Katie Fforde, why

I'm so going to read the rest of her books, aren't I SIGH.
Actually not really a good book, or a good story, . . BUT just too good to read! Very amusing, very romantic, I enjoyed it a lot, as a hapless romantic I certainly enjoyed the book, It was a good short read, Normally a big fan of all things Katie Fforde, but for some reason this book just didn't leave me with any happy, fluffy feelings! Found the story to be very slow and most of the characters a little dull and flat.
This is another modern take of Pride and Prejudice, but in Fforde's deft hands, it truly shines, It's her first book and unlike most romance authors, her inexperience does not show, In fact, this and The Rose Revived are her best books, She's gotten too formularic as she has continued writing,

As in all of Fforde's books, you've got the artsy heroine Polly who's set in her ways making pottery, living frugally and celibate but has her whole world changed when she meets a rich, but aloof man David.
The trials Polly goes through dating hot young thing Tristan are comical as is her resistance to love, A great book from start to finish, .