Love Letters by Katie Fforde Love Letters by Katie Fforde is exactly the kind of love story that you hope happens to you. It was the beautiful cover design that first caught my attention, the rather whimsical looking girl relaxing in deck chair. --What happens?-- Laura Horsley has been leading a shelter quiet existence working in a bookshop that she adores and reading as many novels as possible. Then life as it inevitably does throws here a curve ball and she loses her job at the local bookshop as it prepares to close its doors. Her life is then sent in directions that she could never imagined and she ends up helping to organise, run and ...  Read the complete review

I am a big fan of Katie Fforde and her books - in particular I like the fact that the characters are believable and you really do want her main character to get together with the man she loves! Love Letters is an enjoyable read from start to finish and Katie has obviously put in a lot of her own personal experiences of literary festivals and bookshop signings. Laura is our heroine and she is losing her job in an independant bookstore as the owning is closing the shop. A shy and retiring and self-confessed "bore", Laura, with the aid of her friends, attempts to bring herself out of her shell. She impresses a publisher that she ...  Read the complete review

Laura Horsley is devastated when the bookshop where she works is about to close. With no immediate plan for future work, she ends up agreeing to organise a literary festival deep in the English countryside. Laura has no idea how to organise a literary festival and soon starts to panic. Not only that but Laura inadvertantly makes people believe she knows Dermot Flynn, a reclusive writer struggling with writer's block. Laura sets off to Ireland with her friend Monica to track down the elusive Dermot Flynn... Katie Fforde's books always follow the same winning formula: heroine of the story needs to save/organise something huge, meets man and ...  Read the complete review