Bidding for Love

BIDDING FOR LOVE: Katie Fforde: St. Martin’s Press: Fiction: 390 pages

Having inherited 51% of a family auction house, Flora moves to the country to learn the business. Her cousin Charles, the other shareholder in the business, and his fiancé don’t relish help from an inexperienced, city girl, though, and Flora has to work hard to prove she deserves a share in the business. Naked men (well, just one) doing tai chi in her garden, a position in a local choir, and attention from a local cad keep Flora busy in her spare time, between sparring with Charles and Annabelle at work.

A chick lit novel milder than most (although still a little steamy at the end), this will appeal to fans of Marian Keyes and Sophie Kinsella.

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