Pastures Nouveaux - Tapa dura

'Pacy pastiche of city dwellers "gone country"...packed with puns... Holden has produced an entertaining novel, bursting with a large cast of Diblyesque characters, which will no doubt delight fans of her two previous books' Daily Mail

'Clever, naughty and basically affectionate and good-natured.... a comic romp engineered with aplomb and dash... will have fans glued' Sunday Times

'A very modern romantic comedy... her cultural references are spot-on... an amusing romp through village life' Mail On Sunday

'Clever, naughty and basically affectionate and good-natured.... a comic romp engineered with aplomb and dash... will have fans glued' Sunday Times

'A very modern romantic comedy... her cultural references are spot-on... an amusing romp through village life' Mail On Sunday

'On days of gloom Wendy Holden's novels should be handed round like aspirin. Her new book, Pastures Nouveaux, is guaranteed to bring a smile even to the baddest of moods... Discover the hills are alive with the sound of high jinks in this laugh-a-minute romp' B magazine

'A light-hearted rustic romp' Mirror

'A hilarious look at townies who move to the country' Mirror

'A pun-packed romp' Eve

'Very funny' Heat

'A hilariously outrageous romp that takes the gloss off those countryside daydreams' Cosmopolitan

Artist Rosie dreams of a peaceful country cottage. Her ambitious journalist boyfriend Mark, meanwhile, is aiming for a big piece of Islington. A house, in fact, like rampantly nouveau riche Samantha's, a has-been film star determined to become a country house chatelaine, despite the opposition of London-loving husband Guy. But circumstances dramatically change: Rosie gets her romantic cottage, while social-climbing Samantha becomes lady of the biggest manor she can find. Yet village life is anything but predictable. A farmer fatale threatens to ruin Rosie's relationship, while Samantha's ramraid on rural high society runs into problems. In the meantime, a fantastically nosy postman, a ferret-racing former Bond girl, a ghost with a knife in its back and a handsome but hermit-like rock star conspire to ensure that life - and especially love - is never the same again.