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Practically Perfect
Jul 17, 2025 2:55 AM

Author:Katie Fforde

Practically Perfect

Is home really where the heart is? A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Wedding Season, A Wedding in Provence and One Enchanted Evening.

'The queen of uplifting, feel good romance' AJ Pearce

'Top-drawer romantic escapism' Daily Mail

'Delicious - gorgeous humour and the lightest of touches' Sunday Times

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Anna has risked everything to buy and renovate a beautiful cottage.

The outside is perfect, but inside all is chaos: with a ladder for a staircase, no downstairs flooring, candles the only form of lighting and a sleeping bag and camping mat for a bed, Anna's soon wondering whether she's bitten off more than she can chew.

Her neighbour Chloe comes to the rescue, providing tea, wine and sympathy. But just as Anna's starting to believe she's found the perfect idyll, good-looking but impossible Rob Hunter arrives on the scene, putting up more obstacles than the Grand National.

Can Anna have it all? A dream house and the perfect man?

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The whole world loves Katie Fforde's work ...

'Modern-day Austen. Great fun' Red

'Warm, brilliant and full of love' Heat

'Effortlessly lovable, warm and fun' Closer

'Curl up on the sofa with this book and dream... delightful' The Lady

'Deliciously enjoyable' Woman and Home

'Uplifting and delightful' Hot Brands Cool Places

Reviews

Perfect for the beach

—— Bella

Fun summer read

—— Choice

A fun helping of chick-lit

—— OK!

Funny and heartwarming

—— Newmarket Journal

I can see this being carried in many a beach bag because fans simply adore her humorous, lively and character-driven stories. They will certainly warm to Anna

—— Peterborough Evening Telegraph

The plot is terrific and the pace fast and furious...A terrific story told by a master storyteller

—— Historical Novels Review

Grimly, intelligently comic as if written by an Asian Joseph Heller

—— Daily Telegraph

If this rich stew of disparate ingredients puts you in mind of Salman Rushdie, you wouldn't be far from the truth. His work, along with that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Joseph Heller, is a low-key but persistent influence

—— Sunday Times

An exciting, accomplished new literary voice

—— Irish Times

A very funny satire-cum-thriller

—— Sally Cousins , Sunday Telegraph Seven

Somewhere in mid-air between Waugh and Rushdie (with an shade of Catch 22 hovering near by) this tremendous novel makes a tragicomic weather all its own

—— Boyd Tonkin , The Independent

Justly Booker longlisted last year, this debut is a dazzling one-off

—— Hermione Eyre , The Observer

Provocative and comic debut.

—— The Times

A true touch of originality ... showcases a promising new talent.

—— Colin Waters , Sunday Herald

Dry, droll and insightful

—— The Independent

Bodice-ripping romp through the West

—— Times

Missy by Strong and memorable female characters throughout this enjoyable novel

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Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

—— Arabella Weir

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

—— Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever

—— Douglas Adams

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

—— Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

—— Ben Elton
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