A Hopeless Romantic by Harriet Evans

 

From Goodreads

Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. Her friends know it, her parents know it—even Laura acknowledges she lives either with her head in the clouds or buried in a romance novel. It’s proved harmless enough, even if it hasn’t delivered her a real-life dashing hero yet. But when her latest relationship ends in a disaster that costs her friendships, her job, and nearly her sanity, Laura swears off men and hopeless romantic fantasies for good.

With her life in tatters around her, Laura agrees to go on vacation with her parents. After a few days of visiting craft shops and touring the stately homes of England, Laura is ready to tear her hair out. And then, while visiting grand Chartley Hall, she crosses paths with Nick, the sexy, rugged estate manager. She finds she shares more than a sense of humor with him—in fact, she starts to think she could fall for him. But is Nick all he seems? Or has Laura got it wrong again? Will she open her heart only to have it broken again?

My thoughts

I read this back in 2016 or earlier, but never blogged about my review at the time.  It was when my local Library Reading Group were given a book to read by this author that made me look for reviews of some of her other books as I knew that I had read some before.

This was the first book I've read by Harriet Evans. I must admit I did liken it to a very modern day Pride and Prejudice and the book actually gets a mention in the story. The book has very mixed reviews on Amazon but I loved it and gave it a 10/10.

I found Laura a very likeable character who finds herself in a relationship with Dan that doesn't seem to be going anywhere due to his girlfriend Amy. A series of minor disasters ensue which see her fleeing to Norfolk on Holiday with her Parents and her Grandmother.

I felt that Laura and Nick were well suited and you will things to happen that will allow them to live happily ever after.

I felt it was well written and noticed that a review on Amazon said it had a lot of bad language in it, to be honest I didn't really notice the bad language. I was swept away with the story, it had humour, it had romance and was a good all round story that left me feeling warm all over. To be honest I wanted to find out what happened between Laura and Nick but I didn't want it to end.

Well worth a read in my opinion.