About the book:
After a Fashion by Jen Turano
A Class of Their Own: Book 1
Bethany House
Miss Harriet Peabody
dreams of the day she can open up a shop selling refashioned gowns to
independent working women like herself. Unfortunately, when an errand
for her millinery shop job goes sadly awry due to a difficult customer,
she finds herself without an income.
Mr. Oliver Addleshaw is on the verge of his biggest business deal yet when he learns his potential partner prefers to deal with men who are settled down and wed. When Oliver witnesses his ex not-quite-fiancée causing the hapless Harriet to lose her job, he tries to make it up to her by enlisting her help in making a good impression on his business partner.
Harriet quickly finds her love of fashion can't make her fashionable. She'll never truly fit into Oliver's world, with its fancy dinners and elegant balls, but just as she's ready to call off the fake relationship a threat from her past forces both Oliver and Harriet to discover that love can come in the most surprising packages.
Mr. Oliver Addleshaw is on the verge of his biggest business deal yet when he learns his potential partner prefers to deal with men who are settled down and wed. When Oliver witnesses his ex not-quite-fiancée causing the hapless Harriet to lose her job, he tries to make it up to her by enlisting her help in making a good impression on his business partner.
Harriet quickly finds her love of fashion can't make her fashionable. She'll never truly fit into Oliver's world, with its fancy dinners and elegant balls, but just as she's ready to call off the fake relationship a threat from her past forces both Oliver and Harriet to discover that love can come in the most surprising packages.
My Review:
Jen Turano is quickly becoming a must read author for
me. Her novels always grab me from the very first sentence and refuse to let me
go until I close the back cover. The first in a new series, After a Fashion is a comical ride that
is bursting with wonderful characters who promise adventures of their own to
come.
The
story opens with an altercation that leaves Harriet Peabody in need of a job
and Oliver Addleshaw lacking a dinner companion to help him woo a potential
business partner. Oliver and Harriet tentatively join forces but, when do
things ever go according to plan?
Harriet
and her friends Millie Longfellow and Lucetta Plum are delightfully witty and
are not afraid to take matters into their own hands if need be. Then if you
throw into the mix the reclusive and eccentric Abigail Hart, who is bent on
seeing each of the girls married, you get a delightful cast of characters to
carry us through a delightful new series.
Every
time I read a new Jen Turano book her writing and the ease of her comedy strike
me. I always find myself laughing out loud and even crying on occasion. I would
recommend her book to anyone who enjoys comedy and light romance.
*I received a copy of
this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are
my own. *
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