Wild Weekend

By Celia Brayfield

In the tiny village of Saxwold, Oliver Hardcastle scrapes an existence as an organic farmer while his mother, Bel, spends everything she has on restoring Saxwold Manor. One stormy night, two women from London arrive in Saxwold - high-flying Miranda Marlow, an international town-planner and her mother, Clare, recently appointed Under-Secretary for Agriculture who naturally spends as little time as she can in the country. Misled by Oliver's half-sister Toni, they take the Manor for a country house hotel.Oliver sees the opportunity to have a little fun and make a bit of money. The Marlows' luxury mini-break turns into three days of hell, complicated by an urban fox, a posing Goth, two illegal immigrants and a SWAT team of eco-warriors, while Miranda and Ollie loathe each other with something very close to passion.The classic comedy She Stoops to Conquer updated for 21st century England, where city and countryside are worlds apart but love still finds a way to connect them."Most authors would give their eye teeth to write this well." The Times.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1492781118
• ISBN13: 9781492781110
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

City Folk Runs Amok in the Rural Countryside...

It takes a while to get into the story as the style of writing is wordy and dense. The authors favors lengthy description of minute details which I felt was wholly unnecessary and tedious. Leaves you wondering why can't the author just can't get into the crux of the story. Otherwise, a good take on tackling romance about a hip girl in a highly demanding PR job meets once-upon-a-time investment banker turned organic farmer set against the current agricultural reforms taking place in England. The author takes a dig at the save the wildlife movement pitched against the more mundane bread and butter issues of farmers in rural Suffolk trying hard to survive against the ever evolving British agricultural mishaps that happened in the past and present. The subtle humour surfaces when the city folk thought that they had landed in a country hotel for a long weekend away from London but turned out otherwise and that's where the fun starts!