An irresistible novel from the bestselling author of Artistic Licence and Highland Fling 'I don't suppose you'd care to house-sit for a while? It's a beautiful old house, in a lovely part of the world...' Hetty Longden's mother thinks that looking after Great Uncle Samuel's crumbling stately home while he is in hospital will be just the thing to cure Hetty's broken heart. Hetty doesn't mind; at least she can be miserable in private. But 'private' is a relative term in a village whose main concern is the goings-on at the big house. Particularly when you are the only person available to thwart Great Uncle Samuel's awful heir, and his nefarious plans to turn his inheritance into a funfair. Pitchforked into the community's fight to preserve the manor, Hetty has no time to wallow. In fact, once she has shared her troubles with one neighbour (Caroline: a very understanding shoulder, despite her glamorous appearance and impossibly long legs), and cast an appreciative eye over another (Peter: equally long-legged, cut offering rather more practical help), she wonders if her heart is irretrievably broken after all...
- ISBN10 0718142918
- ISBN13 9780718142919
- Publish Date 31 July 1997 (first published 1 January 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Michael Joseph Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English