Published 6th August 202 by HQ.
Read July 2020.
Florence Fairfax is perfectly happy being single, thank you. Her days are more than taken up with the job that she loves at a tiny bookshop in Chelsea, and at night...well she can always cuddle up to her favourite gentleman, Marmalade the cat.
But when Florence's younger half-sister announces that she is getting married to the incredibly dull Hugo, her singledom becomes a matter for debate among her family and they arrange for her to pay a visit to the eccentric love guru Gwendolyn.
Gwendolyn gets Florence to write a list of everything she is looking for in a man, and after some hastily mumbled incantations, she sends her out into the world with the assurance that she will now be able to find love.
Lo and behold, an eligible bachelor drops into Florence's lap later that same week, in the form of the handsome, and frightfully posh, aspiring politician Rory - who appears to have all the attributes she has written on her wish list. But is he really 'The One', or has she been looking in all the wrong places...and for the wrong sort of 'Mr Right'?
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I love Sophia Money-Coutts' books. They never fail to make me laugh and cry in equal measure, with just the right amount of 'hot under the collar' naughtiness thrown in! So I was really looking forward to immersing myself in Sophia's third rom-com, The Wish List, and what an absolute joy it was!
Florence Fairfax makes for a winning heroine, with insecurities that make you want to pick her up and give her a big hug. After losing her mother at a young age and being saddled with a social climbing step-mother, and two half-sisters who are very close to each other, she has always felt a bit of an outsider. Florence relies on routine and her counting habit for reassurance, and this might make her seem a bit weird to those who don't know her well, but she has her heart firmly in the right place, and although she is not desperate to have a man in her life, she is not averse to meeting Mr Right as it might be rather nice to finally have a boyfriend.
Forced to confront her single state, Florence finds herself with love on the horizon in the form of a man who seems to tick all the boxes on her wish list, but is is not as easy negotiating a relationship as she thought, even if the sex is a revelation, when she is barely coping with the impending wedding of the year, trying to save the beloved bookshop where she works, and juggling friends and family. How can she tell if Rory is really the man she has been looking for, or even the man she actually needs?
Well, suffice to say, Florence's search for true love does not run smooth, and to be honest the other parts of her life are a bit chaotic too, but it was absolutely lovely to be along for the ride as all the threads of the story work out to their various hilarious, romantic and 'fist-pumpingly' gorgeous conclusions.
This is another winner from the pen of Sophia Money-Coutts, with a fabulous cast of characters drawn from the posher parts of society, mixed deftly in with us more ordinary mortals, in the way that she has made her own. I am always seeing Sophia vaunted as the new Jilly Cooper, but for me, her books are so much more heart-felt and funny, which makes them such a tonic for the soul.
Don't be shy now, get yourself copy of The Wish List and brighten up your summer days!
Florence Fairfax makes for a winning heroine, with insecurities that make you want to pick her up and give her a big hug. After losing her mother at a young age and being saddled with a social climbing step-mother, and two half-sisters who are very close to each other, she has always felt a bit of an outsider. Florence relies on routine and her counting habit for reassurance, and this might make her seem a bit weird to those who don't know her well, but she has her heart firmly in the right place, and although she is not desperate to have a man in her life, she is not averse to meeting Mr Right as it might be rather nice to finally have a boyfriend.
Forced to confront her single state, Florence finds herself with love on the horizon in the form of a man who seems to tick all the boxes on her wish list, but is is not as easy negotiating a relationship as she thought, even if the sex is a revelation, when she is barely coping with the impending wedding of the year, trying to save the beloved bookshop where she works, and juggling friends and family. How can she tell if Rory is really the man she has been looking for, or even the man she actually needs?
Well, suffice to say, Florence's search for true love does not run smooth, and to be honest the other parts of her life are a bit chaotic too, but it was absolutely lovely to be along for the ride as all the threads of the story work out to their various hilarious, romantic and 'fist-pumpingly' gorgeous conclusions.
This is another winner from the pen of Sophia Money-Coutts, with a fabulous cast of characters drawn from the posher parts of society, mixed deftly in with us more ordinary mortals, in the way that she has made her own. I am always seeing Sophia vaunted as the new Jilly Cooper, but for me, her books are so much more heart-felt and funny, which makes them such a tonic for the soul.
Don't be shy now, get yourself copy of The Wish List and brighten up your summer days!
The Wish List is available to buy now from your favourite book retailer in hardcover, ebook and audio formats.
Thank you to Sophia Money-Coutts and HQ for providing me with a copy of this book in return for an honest review, and to HQ for inviting me to be part of this blogger day.
From the cover of the book:
Florence Fairfax isn’t lonely. She loves her job at the little bookshop in Chelsea and her beloved cat Marmalade keeps her company at night. She might have been single for quite a while – well, forever actually, if anyone’s asking – but she’s perfectly happy, thank you. And then Florence meets eccentric love coach Gwendolyn, and everything changes.
When Gwendolyn makes Florence write a wish list describing her perfect man, Florence refuses to take it seriously. Finding someone who likes cats, has the sexual athleticism of James Bond and can overlook her ‘counting’ habit? Impossible! Until, later that week, a handsome blond man asks for help in the bookshop…
Rory seems to fit the list perfectly. But is he ‘the one’, or simply too good to be true? Florence is about to find out that her criteria for Mr Right aren’t as important as she thought – and that perhaps she’s been looking for love in all the wrong places…
About the author:
Sometimes, if she's not drinking lukewarm cups of tea in her leggings at home, she appears on radio and television talking about important topics such as Prince Harry's wedding and the etiquette of the threesome.
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