As one would expect with this type of storyline, one thing leads to another as acceptance and love blossom. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. A Wedding in Provence is published by Century Books and available now in hardback, ebook and audiobook formats. There are many interesting characters in this book, that help to add colour to the story, and the market scenes make me want to go and visit similar places, too!

I have to say, I kept forgetting that this was set in the 60’s as it felt like it could have been happening today, until something happened that was clearly set in an earlier time. Many thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for gifting me this arc in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. Katie lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England with her husband, some of her three children and many pets. Surprisingly the position turns out not to be in Paris but in Provence, but Alexandra accepts the challenge, despite her only experience being with her own Nannies.Btw, I’d go ahead and admit surrender right now and prepare to lose your heart to a sassy nine-year-old. Katie Fforde has accompanied me through my young adult years, all the way to the present, and I know that whenever I pick up one of her books, I will be engulfed in the story, immediately. Now she has to care for children who view her ‘with a mixture of hostility, resentment and defiance’. 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. 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.

This book has a great cast of characters, from the old fashioned, rude and somewhat cruel ex-mother in law, to the ex-wife herself, poor Alexandra is really thrown into the thick of it with her new job in Provence. Waiting for her inside is three silent, rather hostile children who are to be her charges for the next month. She's offered the job but it's not quite what she expected, it's for the position of a nanny and it's not in Paris, it's in Provence!I liked how the book was written it had a chatty feel to it which I liked, I liked Alexandra, I felt as though she was a strong women that people could look up to. This was your typical Hannah/Laura buddy read where the planned reading schedule goes to pot on the first night *snorts*. I love any book that can take me on a beautiful journey in foreign countries, from the comfort of my home. Overall I just really loved this book, there were a few occasions where I gasped out loud as I found myself just getting absolutely lost in the pages. Though instantly attracted to Antoine she knows that there are too many reasons why they could never be a couple and focuses all of her love and attention on his 3 children.

She finds herself looking after a teenage girl, a not much younger brother and adopted much younger sister. Far more of a challenge though is their father – an impossibly good looking French count with whom she is rapidly falling in love .

I’d absolutely recommend this book to anyone and everyone, whether you’re a romance lover or not, read Katie’s books. I loved seeing Alexandra thrust into life as a nannie for children that, very obviously, resent her and do not want her there. 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.