Saturday, 15 March 2014

A hopeless romantic by Harriet Evans

This is the first book I have read by by this lovely lady and probably the longest book I have read to date but loved every page.
Laura foster is the hopeless romantic who falls in love at a drop of a hat and this is how the story starts will Laura fallen for off on Dan who is in a relationship but they have been off on for so long that it seems he has a relationship with Dan  which is kept a secret even from her best friends paddy, Jo and Hilary but then one bad day turns into a bad week as Jo finds out about the affair and then Laura finds out that dan is never leaving his girlfriend especially now she is pregnant and too top this off her job that she has worked at so hard but in the last months as gone down hill she gets herself  suspended!!!!!!!
Laura world falls apart and she trows all her rom con films books out the window as they is nothing of Prince Charming and happy endings anymore.
In part two we see Laura coming out of her self pity pit and going away with her parents and gran to theory holiday home in Norfolk to turn clear her head. While there to please her parents she visits a stately home charley hall for the day she was not really in the mood but was trying to keep her parents happy when she bumps into nick and cheeky groundsman who after a few minuets asks her out for drinks that night the new Laura tells herself that it is just a friends things but they got it off like a house on fire and before she how's she fallen for nick against all her rules with the new Laura , then Laura finds out as secret that Nick is not a cheeky groundsman but the Marquis of Ranlagh and runs has she knows that they are from different worlds and that it would not work but it has change her and realised that Dan was never going to be Prince Charming  and is strong for it she comes home after her grand party ready to get her job back and move on with her life just with no men in it for awhile , while on a job do she bumps into Nick and he is cold a brass and Laura confirms that they are from different worlds she try's to leave but nick insist on taking her home this does nit go while and Laura insist at getting out half way home and again she is not with her Prince Charming but she moves on with her life in work no one knows her secret apart form gran . So when she gets a text saying they need to talk and that he wants her to attend a n autumn ball from advice of gran that life is too shirt and too see what she might want she goes to find out that his best friend has set the whole thing up and she is thrown in the deep end and she can't cope and it only confirm her fears that they r from different worlds but before nick could tell her any different her worst nightmare had happened her fear gran had dead from a heart attack but she never got to say goodbye but her dear gran  wrote to her when the days where coming near and told her that life is too short to have the worms man in it and to chase those dreams of Prince Charming and there is one out there for everyone so does Laura get her Prince Charming  by following her heart nit her head you will just have to read the book to find out .

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