The Temptation of Gracie

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To Carina’s concern, Gracie responds that it’s good for young people to have at least one wild, passionate fling even though it’ll more than likely end in heartbreak, and that youth of Anastasia’s generation are savvy enough to know how to be careful. Her only family – daughter Carina and granddaughter Anastasia – are hesitant about what has prompted this seemingly random venture. Everybody seems to love Sofia except for Anna, her Irish mother who visits her sense of inadequacy and alienation on her daughter. According to herself, and to the knowledge of her friends and even her own family, Gracie has led an unremarkable life, so when Grace suddenly announces that she is going to Tuscany to stay in a castle for a week-long Italian cookery course, it not only sets tongues wagging but has just about everyone she knows aghast at the idea. The Temptation of Gracie is a poignant, timeless tale of grand romance, a story of women through the generations, and a reminder that it’s never too late to love.

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Her friends loved the stories, and fancying herself one of the greatest novelists that ever lived, she submitted them to a publisher only to be rejected. It brought nothing to the story as a whole and rather took away from the scenes set back in the past which were the strongest in the book overall.Meet Me Under the Ombu Tree is the unforgettable, evocative, and moving tale of forgiveness and love. In her Devon village she is greatly overlooked but in reality she enables many events to run smoothly. At times it felt like I was reading two separate stories and a successful emergence of the two didn't occur.

The Temptation of Grace: A Witty and Steamy Regency Romance The Temptation of Grace: A Witty and Steamy Regency Romance

But when her husband points out that Carina doesn't have any type of relationship with their teenage daughter, Carina decides they are heading to Italy. An aristocratic French family, a legendary château, and buried secrets with the power to destroy two generations torn between duty and desire.Gracie Burton is a 68-year-old widow, she's cautious, unadventurous and likes to stay out of the limelight. Carina feels deep guilt that she has neglected her mother and to an even greater extent her daughter. She loved the country with its humid flat plains, countryside rich with gardenia and eucalyptus, and the sound of the farmlands, which she cherishes to this day. One of the reasons I love her books is that so often when reading them, when I eventually look up, I am surprised to still find myself in my own front room. I discovered them several years ago when I found myself swept away to Italy and Devon in The House by The Sea which still remains one of my favourites.

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What ensues is a delightful read that jumps between Gracie spending 10 years of her life in Italy in the 1960s and the cookery course in 2010. One chapter dedicated to explaining where Gracie lived and that she was leaving on an adventure would have sufficed.She is the bestselling author of The Temptation of Gracieand the Deverill series, among many others. Born in England in 1970 Santa Montefiore grew up on a farm in Hampshire and was educated at Sherborne School for Girls. Which is what makes her decision to book a holiday to Tuscany, to learn to cook Italian food all the more extra-ordinary. When Gracie Burton stumbles upon an advertisement for a week-long cookery course in the heart of the Tuscan countryside, she cannot resist, and ploughs her life savings into the trip. Very weak and loaded with dated phrases like: “All she could do was whisper her love into a pillow at night.