Book Reviews of Farm Fatale: A Comedy of Country Manors

This is an international bestseller, chick-lit, by the author of "Simply Divine" and "BAd Hair Day". It's the humorous tale of two couples who, separately, leave London for life in the "countryside" - one an unmarried struggling journalist and his girlfriend, a book illustrator, who must buy a delapidated bargain, and the other, a shrewish former actress and her rich but hapless husband who buy the 2nd biggest manor in town. The largest is of course occupied by one of the hilariously intriguing characters that populate the town - a reclusive rock star. Throw in a local theatre group, a gruff farmer, a joke-cracking bartender, a nosy postman, a hippie couple with a tribe of unruly children, and a sweet elderly neighbor who has matchmaking ideas of her own - well, you get the picture. It's light reading, but well done, and you WILL smile at the images invoked.

Awesome story, once it got started I couldn't stop reading it. I loved the characters and some of them were so over the top it made me laugh out loud. Great ending.

funny and entertaining- typical Wendy Holden. The ending is a bit of a stretch- but again typical. Most of the characters in this book however, are NOT likable- which can be off-putting.

Funny and clever. Urbanites move to the English countryside and find it's not quite what they expected.

A pretty funny book - a good quick weekend read when you've got nothing else to do. A bright young London couple goes off to the country and find themselves shocked by the conditions, the lifestyle and of course the people they meet. Definitely a classic fish-out-of-water tale, the main characters of Rosie and Mark don't handle change well and struggle to keep the relationship going in their "charming cottage." Enter a gruff and studly local farmer, reclusive pop star, former actress with delusions of grandeur and the requisite cast of local loons (like a postman who can't control his love of gossip) and it's a fun, light-hearted read. Fans of the lighter British humor should enjoy it.

Really funny, several out and out guffaws while reading. Loved the town and locals in the book. A good fun read.

Excellent! This was enormously fun to read.

A tale about what happens when two city couples go country.

If you like "Monarch of the Glen" (BBC) you'll love this and "Bad Heir Day". Funny, sweet Brit-Lit.

Funny story about two city couples who find themselves living in the country.

Two couples move to a small town. Very funny!

Very funny!

Farm Fatale is a breezy Cinderella of a novel, tarted up in wellies and corduroy rather than the more traditional ball gown. Its theme--Londoners move to the country--is a well worn one in British comic writing, and Farm Fatale hews closely to tradition. Rosie is a disgruntled illustrator, bored with city living and dissatisfied with her relationship. She convinces her crabby boyfriend Mark to move with her to the country. Samantha and Guy--a trophy wife and the man who bagged her--end up in the same town, dragging their pretensions along with them. Village life looks easy enough, but the four newcomers find plenty of pitfalls among the cows, the mud, the marauding hippies, and the leaky outbuildings. This is the kind of novel that ends with someone slipping a "pale blue Tiffany ring box" into the heroine's hand; the fun is in finding out just who that suitor will be.

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