Wild Designs: A Novel

About Wild Designs: A Novel

"A Cinderella story that says even if you're 40 with three messy kids, you can find happiness with a millionaire Prince Charming .  .  .

a delightful romp." —Library Journal Althea Farraday is a thirty-eight-year-old divorced mother of three who's got a teenage son who's a Buddhist, a hypercritical sister who knows how to push all her buttons, a job on the endangered species list, and a love life to match. Just as she's settling in to a comfortable level of chaos, a near-perfect man enters her life.

Equipped to steal her heart and help turn her passion for designing gardens into a new career, Patrick Donahugh may be too good to be true. Amid wild roses, California poppies, scarlet flax, sweet rocket, love-in-mist, and, of course, plenty of dirt, Wild Designs is a refreshingly honest and funny read that celebrates the almost-ready-to-bloom aspect of all our lives. "A delight .

.  . Althea copes with single-mom tribulations with such grace and wit that you wish she could move in next door."

—Detroit Free Press "Old-fashioned romance of the best sort .  .  .

funny, comforting." —Elle "[A] delicious romantic romp .  .

. As pretty a piece of wish fulfillment as can be imagined; enchanting withal." —Booklist (starred review) "British writer Fforde returns, this time exhibiting a spirited sense of humor, a light touch, and a real sense of how families work."