A Wedding in Provence: From the #1 bestselling author of uplifting feel-good fiction

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When she goes for the interview she has to lie about her age as it is for a nanny position to three children and she is only 20!

Set in Provence in the middle of the 60’s you are just transported straight into the chateaux with Alexandra, having the confidence to take on the job of nanny to three kids just days after arriving in Paris at just 20 is inspiring and tells you a bit about the kind of character she is.

Alexandra is on her way from London to finishing school in Switzerland when she stops off in Paris for 24 hours.

With a get-on-with-it mindset, she throws off her pearls and stiff dresses and adopts a barefoot Provençial lifestyle. She bumps into Donna outside the Sacré Coeur, and there begins a chain of events that leads her to gaining employment from the handsome Le Comte de Belleville. I feel like the story is centered more around Alexandra's relationship with the children (which was EVERYTHING) rather than a romance with the count, but the ending tied it all up neatly and made my heart so happy! I also didn’t know that the French celebrate Christmas Eve more than Christmas Day but the way Alex and David introduced the more English traditions felt so fitting in this.Although there were many aspects of this story I enjoyed, and it was certainly romantic, I felt it was perhaps suited to younger readers than myself. Cookery school-trained, with ‘colloquial and rustic’ French, Alexandra is to take charge of le Comte’s – Antoine’s – three children in a chateau in Provence for a month. Usually, I end up having one or two favourite characters but I loved almost every character in this charming book, even the ones who didn’t feature much!

The food descriptions had my mouth watering when reading about the lovely French pastries and delicious meals. However, Alexandra is a capable and resourceful young woman and, despite disapproval from almost everyone she meets, gradually gains the children’s trust. Now she has to care for children who view her ‘with a mixture of hostility, resentment and defiance’. I have read all of Katie Fforde’s novels over the last twenty years or so, and A Wedding in Provence has a lot of the familiar elements that make her books so memorable. A gentle romance in more ways than one, the style of read that fans of Katie Fforde are used to reading.Her relationship with them is the main focus of the story, with the romance almost taking second place. I believe falling in love is the best thing in the world, and I want all my characters to experience it, and my readers to share their stories.

I love any book that can take me on a beautiful journey in foreign countries, from the comfort of my home. Their father is absent a lot of the time, and their mother left many years before, so they present her with a bit of a challenge to say the least. As one would expect with this type of storyline, one thing leads to another as acceptance and love blossom.A lot happens in the last third of the book which gives it a slightly uneven pace but that takes nothing away from this cosy read. Set in the early sixties this is a charming romantic read,I'll not go into the story just sit back and relax . If you’ve read any previous book by Katie Fforde you’ll know she absolutely slays her characterizations, every single character in all of her books are believable, not perfect in any way, and absolutely so dang lovable. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.