Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I have read all of Katie Fforde’s novels over the last twenty years or so, and A Wedding in Provence has a lot of the familiar elements that make her books so memorable.

Cookery school-trained, with ‘colloquial and rustic’ French, Alexandra is to take charge of le Comte’s – Antoine’s – three children in a chateau in Provence for a month. I loved seeing Alexandra thrust into life as a nannie for children that, very obviously, resent her and do not want her there. Some lovely friendships were forged and I enjoyed seeing the children blossom under Alexandra’s care. As I have been reading and enjoying her novels since 1995, I think I can safely say her writing never fails to provide just what I need at the time. She believes falling in love is the best thing in the world, and she wants all her characters to experience it, and her readers to share their stories.It didn’t flow and I was beginning to wonder where it was going but I persevered but was left disappointed. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This book has a great cast of characters, from the old fashioned, rude and somewhat cruel ex-mother in law, to the ex-wife herself, poor Alexandra is really thrown into the thick of it with her new job in Provence. It’s 1963 and free-spirited heiress Alexandra has 24 hours in Paris before jumping on a train bound for finishing school in Switzerland.

Her story was accompanied by a varied cast of interesting side characters, including endearing children and a dashing loved interest. Set in the 60s but to be honest that has little bearing on the narrative - jute a lack of mobile phones!

Now she has to care for children who view her ‘with a mixture of hostility, resentment and defiance’.