You can take the girl out of the city—but can you take the city out of the girl?
Jo Smiley abandons her glamorous London lifestyle to decamp to a draughty manor house with her new husband, Charlie. Happiness awaits: all they need is a plan to make it pay.
Deep in the English countryside, Fiddleford makes an ideal refuge from the media for paparazzi-battered guests. The house might be crumbling, the chef temperamental, but the Fiddleford magic never fails...apparently.
But others aren't quite so pleased with Fiddleford's new celebrity status... Suddenly Jo and Charlie's rural retreat looks shaky—and so does their relationship. Can they save their dream and stay on their own path to happiness?
Daisy Waugh was born in 1967. A journalist and travel writer for many publications, Daisy has worked as an agony aunt for The Independent and as a restaurant critic. She also wrote a weekly column from Los Angeles about her attempts to become a Hollywood screenwriter. She has presented Channel Four's Travelogue show and also contributed to Radio Four's Afternoon Shift. She now lives in West London with her husband and two children and is busy writing her next novel.