One Enchanted Evening: The uplifting and charming Sunday Times Bestselling Debut by Anton Du Beke

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I especially adored Ambrosine - she has such a big heart that you can't help but root for her throughout the novel. It is sung as a solo by the show's male lead, Emile de Becque, a middle-aged French expatriate who has become a plantation owner on a South Pacific island during World War II.

In the original Broadway production, "Some Enchanted Evening" was sung by former Metropolitan Opera star Ezio Pinza. Undaunted, she has plans to travel to France and work on her already impressive skills to chase her dream of becoming a pastry chef. Her mother is working in a Hotel, with a big event coming up, and she phones Meg and begs her to drop everything and come and help. Conflict-wise, I felt that many situations in the book were solved almost too quickly and too conveniently, that there is no actual time where I truly felt afraid for Meg. This could be one of those books you pick up for when you are not up to read books that deal with heavy themes.Meg has been interning in London restaurants and has managed to get some good experience, despite the endemic sexism of the time. Fortunately for Nightingale Woods, Meg arrives in the nick of time and recognises that the kind of charm this hotel offers is worth preserving, and she is not afraid to fight for its future. and then I discovered that there were at least two other books written previously about the same group of friends. She is delighted to have been chosen as Chair of the Romantic Novelists' Association and says, "Catherine Jones was a wonderful chair and she's a very tough act to follow.

Aside from that, and once it got going, I enjoyed the story, had a good time with the renovations and the cooking. It was great to see how Meg eventually followed her dream of working in a French restaurant in France, where everyone is surprisingly friendly. I have read a couple of Katie Fforde books before and really enjoyed them and this one didn’t disappoint either.She settles into the hotel, becoming friends with the staff and Ambrosina, an elderly lady who lives there. I was drawn in immediately and I absolutely loved Meg who is young, yet knows her own mind, and is friendly and kind.