The French Chateau Escape

<h2>Click buy: a French chateau. Condition: 'may require improvement''</h2> <p>It seemed like a good idea. Selling everything we owned. Just Mark and me swapping our tiny little terraced London home ' and the heartbreak of not being able to start a family ' for an entire chateau in the middle of France' It's everyone's dream. And now it's coming true for us.</p> <p>As I use the rusty key to open the big creaking wooden door of the tumbledown fairytale chateau that's officially our new home I wonder: what could possibly go wrong?</p> <p>Little do I know that the answer is going to be' 'everything'. I don't speak nearly as much French as I should yet but I feel like there's no mistaking the villagers' hostility. Nor the look of shock on the builder's face when he sees the roof.</p> <p>Can our marriage survive this adventure? With all the tumbling masonry will <em>we</em>?</p> <p>As the French sun blazes overhead one thing's for sure: it's going to be a year to remember'</p> <p><strong>A gorgeously escapist read from the bestselling author of <em>A Year at the French Farmhouse</em> and <em>A Month in Provence.</em> Perfect for fans of Veronica Henry Jo Thomas and Jennifer Bohnet.</strong></p> <p><strong>Readers are loving Gillian Harvey!</strong></p> <p><strong>A touching story</strong> about finding the strength you didn't know you had. <strong>Warm funny and downright wonderful. I loved it</strong> <em>Nicola Gill</em></p> <p>If you're planning to buy a ramshackle chateau in France and <strong>you enjoy engaging highly readable fiction this is the book for you</strong>. And if you have no chateau plans you can still live the <strong>adrenalin-filled</strong> experience on every page of Gillian Harvey's latest novel!' <em>Sue Teddern</em></p> <p><strong>A heartwarming story</strong> of a couple restoring a French chateau <strong>with plenty of surprises along the way</strong> and some laugh out loud moments ' <strong>loved it!</strong> <em>Catherine Cooper</em></p> <p>There's nothing like a book where the main character gets to change her life dramatically to get my attention!' <strong>Warm and wonderful</strong> Really relatable and lovely and made me want to jump right in' Definitely an <strong>uplifting heartwarming escapist novel</strong> to be read with a DO NOT DISTURB sign because once you start that very first page you are not going to want to put it down' <em>Kim Nash</em></p> <p>As delightful as it is moving ' <strong>a true gem of a novel</strong>... enchanting wise and wonderfully uplifting'<em>Isabelle Broom</em></p> <p><strong>Uplifting feel-good and hilarious</strong>... for anyone who has ever had their heart broken. This is escapism at its best. Every page felt like I was on holiday with my best friends. Gillian has done it again!' <em>Tim Ewins</em></p>