Practically Perfect

Will Anna's grand designs prove just a pipe dream? Anna, a newly qualified interior designer, has decided its time to put her money and her expertise where her mouth is. Shes risked everything on buying a tiny but adorable cottage so she can renovate it, sell it on, and prove to her family that she can earn her own living. Outside, the chocolate-box cottage 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, Annas soon wondering whether shes bitten off more than she can chew. Her neighbour Chloe comes to the rescue, providing tea, wine and sympathy and a recently rescued greyhound, Caroline. But just as Annas starting to believe shes found the perfect idyll, the good-looking yet impossible Rob Hunter arrives on the scene, putting up more obstacles than the Grand National. Can Anna get over all of lifes hurdles? About The Author Katie Fforde lives in Gloucestershire with her husband and some of her three children. Recently her old hobbies of ironing and housework have given way to singing, Flamenco dancing and husky racing. She claims this keeps her fit. Practically Perfect is her twelfth novel.