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Farm Fatale: A Comedy of Country Manors
by Wendy Holden
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Paperback 352 pages / Plume / 2002-02-26 / listprice: $13.00
ISBN: 0452283027
Product Dimentions: 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
Product Weight: 35 ounces
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 Book Description
Rosie and her live-in boyfriend Mark move from their London flat to a cottage in the country so that Rosie can indulge her romantic dreams of rural life. But things, needless to say, are not quite what she expected: bad plumbing, noisy neighbors, and--worst of all--conflicts with Mark about everything from the flower garden to the idea of being there at all. (He hates it.) Then Rosie meets a young farmer who shares her idyllic vision of country life....
Farm Fatale is a breezy Cinderella of a novel, tarted up in wellies and corduroy rather than the more traditional ball gown. Its theme--Londoners move to the country--is a well worn one in British comic writing, and Farm Fatale hews closely to tradition. Rosie is a disgruntled illustrator, bored with city living and dissatisfied with her relationship. She convinces her crabby boyfriend Mark to move with her to the country. Samantha and Guy--a trophy wife and the man who bagged her--end up in the same town, dragging their pretensions along with them. Village life looks easy enough, but the four newcomers find plenty of pitfalls among the cows, the mud, the marauding hippies, and the leaky outbuildings. This is the kind of novel that ends with someone slipping a "pale blue Tiffany ring box" into the heroine's hand; the fun is in finding out just who that suitor will be. --Claire Dederer
Rosie and Mark, a couple living in chic urban squalor, pine for the rustic bliss of country life. Newly minted, Samantha and Guy want the same thing-on a somewhat grander scale. The four converge on the quaint village of Eight Mile Bottom. With its eccentric residents, including a reclusive rock star, a nosy postman, a foxy farmer, and one ghost with a knife in its back, the two couples are soon swept up in various romantic entanglements, mix-ups, slipups, and unlikely seductions in their search for ever-greener pastures.
Farm Fatale is another witty, irresistible gem from a hip and savvy author.
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