Review by Tammy for Fallen Angel Reviews

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	• Restoring Grace Katie Fforde Arrow, 2005 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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I love Katie Fforde's books

But found this one hard going. Still, it is pretty cute...as are all her books.

Review by Tammy for Fallen Angel Reviews

Grace Soudley loves the old house she inherited from her aunt and godmother, even if it is crumbling down around her and without furniture. She is recently divorced and in desperate need of funds to repair her old home. Grace is nervously awaiting her first wine tasting since her divorce, when Ellie Summers knocks on her door to sell her a painting. Thinking that the young woman's paintings are beautiful, and to forget her nervousness, Grace invites Ellie in for a tour of her house and some tea. Grace soon learns that Ellie is pregnant, and her boyfriend is not happy about it.

Grace and Ellie soon become friends, and when Grace learns the Ellie needs a place to stay, the two decide the best action would be for Ellie to rent out a room from Grace. These two friends get along great together and are trying to find a way to earn enough money for Grace to repair her home, when Grace stumbles over some old paintings that Ellie thinks might be valuable enough to pay for any repairs Grace's old home may need.

Restoring Grace is a charming tale of love, laughter, and friendships. This book has an easy flow to it with its lighthearted storyline and lenient characters. I loved watching the transformation and growth of each of these characters throughout the story. Restoring Grace will ease its way into your heart with its humor, honesty, and charm, while also displaying the complexity of relationships. Katie Fforde has created a fascinating story that will enchant everyone who reads it.

Reviewed by: Tammy
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Lovely

Reading Katie Fforde is always a treat, and this latest in her collection of divinely written Brit Lit fluff is no exception.

Restoring Grace tells the story of two young women who meet by chance. Grace, recently divorced from her much older somewhat Svengali-like husband Charles, is barely surviving in the gorgeous but rundown historic mansion he left her. Artist Ellie, a much more resourceful person, NEEDS all those resources, as she has found herself pregnant and her drop-dead gorgeous but completely useless boyfriend does not want the baby.

Ellie, determined to keep the child no matter what the cost, leaves the boyfriend, and then the story really begins: Through a series of improbable but delightful happenings, Ellie winds up living with Grace, whom she's only just met.

Throw into the mix a gorgeous Irishman who bothers Grace in a beguiling way, a no-nonsense and rather uppity male art restorer, a desperate college girl who begs to live with Grace and Ellie (having been Grace's one-time step-daughter) and the discovery of two panels of art that may be worth millions, and you have a fun, lively story well worth reading.

Another hit from Fforde!

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Friends are the family you choose

I have to say that I really liked this book. I found Grace to be a fragile person, but by the end of the book she had become strong and able to stand on her own two feet. She was able to do this with the help of Ellie and her sexy new boyfriend, Flynn. Ellie herself seems to be a strong independent sort. She can sometimes come across as being into other people's business, but not overly so that the reader would not find her likeable. This is exactly the type of friend that Grace needs as she struggles to keep up an old house that was left to her as an inheritance. Add to this combination Grace's ex-stepdaugher, a teenage girl who is in her final year of what we would call high school in America, and you have an instant family.
A very heart warming story of how your friends become the family you choose, Restoring Grace is definitely as the title states. Grace's family and those she has surrounded herself with in the past have never really been that supportive of her to include her greedy brother and sister. With Grace's new additions to her inner circle she finds the strength and support that she always deserves. Ellie also comes out with a happy ending, but isnt that how Katie Fforde's books turn out anyway. This is why I like reading her works so much because they leave the read with a warm cozy feeling in the end.

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In an irresistible new story by the bestselling author of Paradise Fields, pregnant Ellie needs a place to stay and Grace, abandoned by her husband, needs a lodger in the wonderful but dilapidated house she has inherited. Both of them need a friend.