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

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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. It is an enjoyable story and the kittens almost make it worth reading by themselves but to me, it all seemed a bit predictable with too many stereotypes. This was your typical Hannah/Laura buddy read where the planned reading schedule goes to pot on the first night *snorts*. Alexandra is en route to Switzerland, in Paris, enjoying her last moments of freedom, before she has to enrol in a finishing school, as expected by her relations.

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. I'd absolutely recommend this book to anyone and everyone, whether you're a romance lover or not, read Katie's books. Her relationship with them is the main focus of the story, with the romance almost taking second place. Katie Fforde lives in the beautiful Cotswold countryside with her family, and is a true country girl at heart.Telling the story of Alexandra who takes on a nannying job as a change of career, in a French chateau. She finds herself looking after a teenage girl, a not much younger brother and adopted much younger sister. However, there wasn’t anything in the story to make it feel as though it was set in that period apart from several references to Audrey Hepburn. she makes a new friend and helps her out with a dinner party taking the opportunity to stay in Paris a bit longer.

There are some great characters in the book and Sophie’s flamboyant friend David was probably my favourite, larger than life and so funny. 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. Alexandra is an engaging character who diverts from her journey to a finishing school in Switzerland to become a nanny for a short time in Provence which becomes life changing. 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. While I couldn’t go to Provence during Lock Down, I had been to Provence a couple of times and had been to France fairly often, which helped.The Chateau where they live is almost a character in itself and definitely feels like a real place that I can imagine visiting and the surrounding area of Provence is also well detailed. 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. I’d absolutely recommend this book to anyone and everyone, whether you’re a romance lover or not, read Katie’s books. Alexandra is a lovely character and her relationship with the three children is lovely although slightly reminiscent of The Sound of Music.