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Laugh out loud with the gorgeously romantic rural comedy from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer

Polly is content and settled in married life, until one comment shakes everything up.

''You''ve gone all fat and complacent because you''ve got your man, haven''t you?''


Polly Penhalligan is outraged at the suggestion that since getting married to Nick and settling into their beautiful manor farmhouse in Cornwall she has let herself go. But watching a lot of telly and gorging on biscuits, not getting dressed until lunchtime and waiting for pregnancy to strike are not the signs of someone living an active and fulfilled life.

So Polly does something rash.

She allows her home to be used as a location for a TV advert. Having a glamorous film crew around will certainly put a bomb under the idyllic, rural life. Only perhaps she should have consulted Nick first . . .

Because before the cameras have even started to roll - an

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An addictive cocktail of wit, frivolity and madcap romance * Time Out *
A joy . . . you're in for a treat * Daily Mail *
Hilarious and full of surprises * Daily Telegraph *
Alliott has a way of getting you hooked, and making you read on and on * Mirror *
Fresh and witty. I couldn't put it down * Sunday Express *
Praise for Catherine Alliott * - *
Intelligent and sparkling -- Marian Keyes
Compulsively readable * Times *
Hilarious yet poignant -- Sophie Kinsella
Warm, witty and wise * Daily Mail *
Classy, wonderfully gossipy and breathless * Red *
We defy you not to get caught up in Alliott's life-changing tale * Heat *

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 10/05/2012
      ISBN13: 9780241958292, 978-0241958292
      ISBN10: 0241958296

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Laugh out loud with the gorgeously romantic rural comedy from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer

      Polly is content and settled in married life, until one comment shakes everything up.

      ''You''ve gone all fat and complacent because you''ve got your man, haven''t you?''


      Polly Penhalligan is outraged at the suggestion that since getting married to Nick and settling into their beautiful manor farmhouse in Cornwall she has let herself go. But watching a lot of telly and gorging on biscuits, not getting dressed until lunchtime and waiting for pregnancy to strike are not the signs of someone living an active and fulfilled life.

      So Polly does something rash.

      She allows her home to be used as a location for a TV advert. Having a glamorous film crew around will certainly put a bomb under the idyllic, rural life. Only perhaps she should have consulted Nick first . . .

      Because before the cameras have even started to roll - an

      Trade Review
      An addictive cocktail of wit, frivolity and madcap romance * Time Out *
      A joy . . . you're in for a treat * Daily Mail *
      Hilarious and full of surprises * Daily Telegraph *
      Alliott has a way of getting you hooked, and making you read on and on * Mirror *
      Fresh and witty. I couldn't put it down * Sunday Express *
      Praise for Catherine Alliott * - *
      Intelligent and sparkling -- Marian Keyes
      Compulsively readable * Times *
      Hilarious yet poignant -- Sophie Kinsella
      Warm, witty and wise * Daily Mail *
      Classy, wonderfully gossipy and breathless * Red *
      We defy you not to get caught up in Alliott's life-changing tale * Heat *

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