The light-hearted, hilarious and gorgeous novel from the much-loved classic author.

Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxfords leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. Still hopelessly in love with Simon, she took baby William and buried herself in deepest Yorkshire as nanny to the children of Cory Erskine, a somewhat eccentric scriptwriter.

Local tongues were just beginning to wag when a whole host of visitors began to arrive to disrupt Harriets peaceful routine: first Corys estranged wife Noel, hellbent on winning Cory back, then Corys glamorous brother Kit, whose old affair with Noel didnt stop him making passes at Harriet, and finally, of all people, Simon...

The Jane Austen of our time Harpers
The funniest and sharpest writer there is Jenny Colgan