Katie Fforde
Autor(a) de Thyme Out
About the Author
Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born on 27 September 1952 in Wimbledon, London. She is founder of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract. She was for many years a committee member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and was elected its twenty-fifth mostrar mais chairman (2009-2011) and later its fourth president. In June 2010 she was announced as a patron of the UK's first National Short Story Week. Many of Fforde's own experiences end up in her books. Her novel Going Dutch was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in June 2007. Her titles include Stately Pursuits, Going Dutch, The Undercover Cook, The Perfect Match and A Summer at Sea. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Katie Fforde
Highland Fling | Restoring Grace 1 exemplar
Manz neues Diktatbuch 2. - 4. Schuljahr. 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Book Lovers' Appreciation Society: Breast Cancer Care Short Story Collection (2009) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Gordon-Cumming, Catherine Rose (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1952-09-27
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Ocupações
- novelist
- Relações
- Fforde, Jasper (neef)
- Organizações
- Romantic Novelists' Association
Katie Fforde Bursary
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 47
- Also by
- 6
- Membros
- 7,975
- Popularidade
- #3,039
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 192
- ISBN
- 607
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 23
It's clear that Katie Fforde loves the island of Dominica and she describes the hurricane-hit island very well. I must admit that I would have preferred more of the remote Scottish island where Cass's father lives but that's just because I have a thing about remote Scottish islands. Cass has a bit of a time of it on Dominica as a horrid man called Austin is also looking for the petroglyph and is determined to make her life difficult.
I found Island in the Sun to be an easy and unchallenging read and I enjoyed following Cass's journeys to Scotland and Dominica. I feel it lacked the charm of some of Fforde's other books, for instance I absolutely adored her last book, One Enchanted Evening, but I still felt like I wanted to see what happened, whether Cass would find the petroglyph, whether her feelings for Ranulph would be reciprocated and if she would get her life together, stop drifting, and stand up for herself against some of her rather overbearing family members and do what she wanted to do. As I say, sweet and gentle, with some rugged and enticing landscapes, a dastardly villain, romance, and an arty feel to the storyline.… (mais)