The light-hearted, hilarious and gorgeous novel from the much-loved classic author.

Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford''s leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnantStill hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a somewhat eccentric scriptwriter.

Local tongues were just beginning to wag when a whole host of visitors began to arrive to disrupt Harriet''s peaceful routine: first Cory''s estranged wife Noel, hellbent on winning Cory back, then Cory''s glamorous brother Kit, whose old affair with Noel didn''t stop him making passes at Harriet, and finally, of all people, Simon...

''The Jane Austen of our time'' Harpers
''The funniest and sharpest writer there is'' Jenny Colgan

Format Häftad Omfång 288 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Transworld Publishers Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2005-04-22 ISBN 9780552152518