Thyme Out

By Katie Fforde

Book Overview

For years, things have run quite smoothly for Perdita and her organic gardening business. So what if her hair needs a complete overhaul, her sweater has more holes than Swiss cheese, and there's no... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099280248
• ISBN13: 9780099280248
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Arrow
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.9" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Good read the Second Thyme Around.

This was just as good a read as it was under the American title, or was this the American title. Anyway, be aware when ordering Katie Fford's books that this is a duplicate. Katie's books are always re-readable though. I really enjoy mature heroines that are treated with humor. She must have cut her reading teeth on Georgette Heyer, just as I did.

Food and gardening, a wonderful combination

I don't normally read contemporary romances but was recommended Fforde by a little old lady on a tour. If this is what she's like, I'll gladly buy all her books. I liked all the characters and hope Fforde will consider sequels for the others in the story. I was simply moved by the Perdita & Kitty thread, and the romance bit isn't that in-your-face but does grow on you. All in all, wonderful.

I'm Really Warming Up To Her

It has taken me a couple of novels to really warm to this author. The first of hers I read she reversed the Pride & Prejudice characters, making Darcy the woman and present day. I had to go recover from this novel with my Colin Firth videotape of the series! However, now that I am used to Fforde's style, I like her. First and foremost, she creates a village of present day English characters and brings you into their world. There is a romance at the center, involving Peridita, a speciality produce farmer, and Lucas, an upscale restaurant chef. They were once married to one another and come together again roughly a decade later. Perdita also has another big relationship, with a woman in her late 80's who lives next door to her. They have been like mother and daughter since Perdita was a girl. Kitty, the older woman, begins to fail and it looks like the end might be near for her. I felt as if I were a part of this village by the end of the book and, really, what more can you ask of fiction?

Katie Fforde Doesn't Disappoint

If you haven't read a novel by Katie Fforde before, prepare yourself for a treat. Second Thyme Around (also published as Thyme Out) is truly a wonderful book. When the book opens, Peri has already grown from a sniveling little girl into a woman ready to be successful on her own, and perhaps even find love again after a disastrous marriage to a young businessman who left her for an older woman. She's settled in the country and is getting an organic specialty farm going, living close to her elderly friend, Kitty, who has been more of a mother to Peri than her own mother ever was. Imagine Peri's dismay when she walks into the kitchen of her largest client (a resort) to find a new chef - in the form of her ex-husband, who has somehow gone from businessman on the rise to hot stuff up-and-coming chef. Sparks start flying immediately between the two, and soon they are enmeshed in each other's personal and professional lives - including the filming of a national cooking series. What saves this from being a traditional and cliched romance is Fforde's extraordinary writing style and storytelling ability. The side stories are essential to the main story and you come to really know each of the characters. She infuses a gentle sense of irony and humor into the plot, but not to the point of distraction. It's a shame that you can't get all of her books in the US, but if you find anything by her - buy it!