After several years of appraising and selling vintage clothing at an auction house, Phoebe Swift is opening her very own vintage clothing store, Village Vintage. This is the moment she's been dreaming of for years, and whilst it should be a happy time in her life, it is overshadowed by something that happened in the past... Phoebe's lifelong friend Emma has recently died, and Phoebe feels a sense of guilt about the whole situation. Her and Emma had drifted apart after Phoebe began dating Guy, the man Emma had her eye on. After Emma's death, she left Guy and has refused to speak to him since, blaming him for the fact she was not there when her friend needed ...  Read the complete review

A Vintage Affair is the story of Phoebe Swift, who we join just as she is achieving a lifelong ambition - opening a shop selling the items that have been her lifelong passion - vintage clothing. Through the clothing that she sells, particularly the dresses - she inadvertently has an impact on other people's stories and lives and they also lead her into the arms of two potential romantic interests. In particular it also leads her to meet Therese, an elderly Frenchwoman who approaches Phoebe in order to sell her pieces from her own designer vintage wardrobe as she no longer has any need for them. The two form an immediate bond, not least due to a beautiful ...  Read the complete review

A Vintage Affair, written by Isabel Wolff, follows the story of protagonist Phoebe Swift as she embarks on opening her very own vintage clothes shop, Village Vintage. We soon learn Phoebe is not a novice when it comes to vintage clothing having worked for an auction house valuing clothing for a number of years. But we also learn very quickly that the opening of this shop has not been borne solely out of a love of old clothes but because her best friend Emma has recently died - a death she blames herself for. What follows is a tale of Phoebe's burgeoning success as a vintage fashion retailer, her entanglements with two very different men and most ...  Read the complete review

This novel was in the 2 for £7 deal at Tesco so I decided to give it a shot after being attracted by the pink dress on the cover and the blurb on the back. The story begins with Phoebe Swift setting up her own vintage clothes store. The details about the clothes, the designers and fashion eras past were truly spectacular and you could perefectly imagine every single item - especially the beautiful cupcake dresses. Each character who vists the store adds more depth to the storyline and the writing is done in such a way that you actually care about these minor characters rather than them simply being there to move the story along. You know ...  Read the complete review