- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Sceptre; New edition edition (17 April 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340684674
- ISBN-13: 978-0340684672
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 675,757 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Frankie has hidden herself away in a cottage on the Yorkshire Moors to paint and forget about London and the messy love life she's left behind. She's adamant that the last thing she needs is a new man in her life. Until desperate for company she spots a lone fisherman and asks him in for a drink.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I, too, was introduced to Ms. Fenton's work through her delightful Lions & Licorice, and decided to take a chance with The Colours of Snow. I do think that the blurbs on the back of the book were misleading. I do not consider this to have been a "romantic comedy." In my opinion, there is too much reality and pain in this story for it to have been a romantic comedy.
Fenton writes beautifully and, even if the plot hadn't interested me, I would have appreciated her talent with words. I read it on the plane home from London yesterday, and could not put it down. In fact, I finished it so quickly that I found myself re-reading entire chapters to re-live certain sections.
Unlike my fellow New Yorker, I found Ned to be extremely attractive. OK, perhaps he does seem too good to be true, but don't most literary heroes? He is a truly good and decent human being and, like Frankie, I could not resist him.
The next step is to check out the rest of Fenton's work. If her other books are as good as L&L and The Colours of Snow, it will be worth having waited all these years to read them.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read this book several times and always fall under its spell. When Frankie goes to stay in a cottage in the middle of the Yorkshire countryside, and starts to fall in love with Ned, the atmosphere of the book has the same delicious feeling of a pleasurable moment stolen out of time, that "Frenchman's Creek" by Daphne du Maurier has. Ned is a wonderful character, big and solid like a bear, intelligent, gentle and unassuming and I fall in love with him, every time I read the book. The advent of various other characters onto the scene adds a touch of spice to the plot and prevents the story from becoming too predictable.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first encountered Kate Fenton's work with "Lions and Liquorice". I'm a bit of a Jane-ite and had read about Fenton's clever twist on Pride and Prejudice. I loved L & L, and although the Colour of Snow is so completely different, I'm finding myself sad to finish it - I want more! I want to know how Frankie gets on with her life - yes, the ending is happy, but there are quite a few loose ends - ah, guess that's what makes for good literature. Unlike one reviewer here, I find much to be attracted to in Ned (the "fisherman"). This is a very well-written book, with a clever plot and some of the best "natural" dialog I've read in a while. I'm disappointed that it appears that most of Fenton's other books are out of print or otherwise hard to find. I'm ready to order everything she's written and have it shipped over to me. Fabulous book!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Beautifully Written Romance
If you love romance, you'll love this book! Set in a tiny village in Yorkshire, this is the story of how two people find love and manage to nurture it against improbable odds. Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2007 by Wicked Woman
Not Interesting
Unlike the other reviewers, I found this book to be very dull and uninteresting. There is no doubt that the author is a good writer and I found the heroine to be intelligent and... Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2001
Very uplifting
I agree with the previous reveiws . I will add that this is a well written story about a real romance with credible real people with real problems. .... Read more
Published on 10 May 2000
Please ma'am, might I have some more in this vein?
This has got ot be one of the sweetest books I've read in a long time. The psychological portraits were quite well done, and one found oneself, in spite of one's own views on... Read more
Published on 9 Dec 1999
Wit, warmth and adverse Yorkshire weather conditions
Kate Fenton writes the same kind of warm, witty, wry, perceptive fiction as better known authors like Mavis Cheek or Laurie Graham, yet doesn't ever seem to get the recognition... Read more
Published on 22 Sep 1999
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