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In the 10 years since the collapse of her tempestuous marriage, Perdita Dylan has become beautiful, confident and determinedly celibate. Now the owner of a thriving salad nursery, she has patched her life back together and has almost completely forgotten how much she loved, and then hated, her ex-husband. So when she finds out that he has taken over the kitchen belonging to one of her most important clients, she is understandably wary. Add to this the fact that she is going to have to play at being polite to him during the filming of a new TV celebrity chef programme at her run-down cottage and it seems inevitable that her world is about to fall apart.
In the 10 years since the collapse of her tempestuous marriage, Perdita Dylan has become beautiful, confident and determinedly celibate. Now the owner of a thriving salad nursery, she has patched her life back together and has almost completely forgotten how much she loved, and then hated, her ex-husband. So when she finds out that he has taken over the kitchen belonging to one of her most important clients, she is understandably wary. Add to this the fact that she is going to have to play at being polite to him during the filming of a new TV celebrity chef programme at her run-down cottage and it seems inevitable that her world is about to fall apart.
Thyme Out is Katie Fforde's sixth novel and builds on her strength as a funny, poignant storyteller. She has the knack of portraying realistic, self-sufficient women such as Perdita, who although vulnerable and alone, especially when the mainstay of her life (the 87-year-old Kitty) has a stroke, is never desperate--indeed it is only the concern of her colleagues and friends that forces her to reassess whether or not she wants to do anything about being single. Predictable yet comforting in its familiarity, Thyme Out is perfect reading for the bath. --Jane Honey
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The comforting thing about Fforde's romantic novels is that from the first word the reader knows that the hostile lovers will undoubtedly end up in each other's arms. It is what happens en route that keeps us turning the pages. Perdita married Lucas when she was only 18 - very young, naive and pliable. Lucas, older and more sophisticated, grew bored and - the final insult - left Perdita for an older woman. Picking herself up, Perdita built a new life as producer of exotic herbs and baby vegetables for sale to local restaurants. To her horror, delivering to one of her favourite customers she finds he is Lucas, who has transmogrified from city gent to celebrity chef - with the temperament that goes with the job. There is a touch of The Taming of the Shrew in what follows - much of it is very funny, especially when, exasperated by his high-handed behaviour, Perdita flies at her one-time husband with a kitchen knife and their full-scale battle becomes exceedingly physical. The main theme of belligerent competition is softened by a much gentler subplot in which Per