Unlike the novels, the TV films are shot in the Northeastern United States. "Wannabe a Writer?" (Accent Press 2007, Jane Wenham-Jones)įforde's novels have been adapted into a series of German TV films. The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories (2017).A Christmas Feast and Other Stories (2014).Country House with Views / A Love in the Highlands (2019).A Summer by the Sea: can you be a girlfriend on vacation? (2017).Christmas like in a Picture Book (2016).Thyme Out (2000) aka Second Thyme Around.Bibliography įforde is the author of a number of works. Fforde takes the research for her books seriously, employing a 'method acting'-style approach to the different professions and backgrounds featured in her novels, using experiences such as being a porter in an auction house, making pottery, refurbishing furniture, examining the processes behind a dating website, and going on a Ray Mears survival course. Her novel Going Dutch was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in June 2007. Cover art, synopsis, sequels, reviews, awards, publishing history, genres, and time period. Many of Fforde's own experiences end up in her books. Thyme Out // Second Thyme Around By Katie Fforde - FictionDB. įforde has lived near Stroud, Gloucestershire for over twenty years. She has three children: Guy, Francis and Briony, and did not start writing until after the birth of her third child. In 1972, she married Desmond Fforde, the nephew of banker John Standish Fforde and cousin of fellow writer Jasper Fforde. Her sister is fellow writer Jane Gordon-Cumming. Her grandfather was Sir William Gordon-Cumming. Biography Ĭatherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born on 27 September 1952 in Wimbledon, London, the daughter of Shirley Barbara Laub and Michael Willoughby Gordon-Cumming. In 2016, she launched the Stroud Contemporary Fiction Writing Competition as part of the first Stroud Book Festival. In June 2010 she was announced as a patron of the UK's first National Short Story Week. She was for many years a committee member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and was elected its twenty-fifth chairman (2009–2011) and later its fourth president. She is founder of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract. Published since 1995, her romance novels are set in modern-day England. Katie Fforde, née Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming (born 27 September 1952), is a British romance novelist. Sir William Gordon-Cumming (grandfather).Having a good heroine (even though Frances Smith had to be made younger and single) is such a good start. I remember this book with great pleasure. The only programme who’d let me in was Ready, Steady, Cook! They let me be in the audience. I wanted to write about a tv cookery programme and try as I might I couldn’t get behind the scenes at any of them. I suppose it’s because I admire these people as women and wish I was more like them! I think she was the basis for my ‘resourceful heroines’ I am so fond of writing. The last thing Perdita wants is a meddlesome man in her life-but shes about to get one, in the form of her completely infuriating ex-husband, Lucas. I went to stay with her for a night and had a terrific time. She was the one who convinced a chef (wish I could tell you which one) that they were a great garnish. She listened, she provided! It was she who brought us the pea shoot which we all eat every time. She was incredibly resourceful and among other things, sold some baby leeks, which were due to be planted, to a passing chef who told her that they were the perfect size for leeks. There’d been a ‘Black Day of the Week’ - can’t remember which one it was – but the stock market had collapsed and Frances decided that she had to use the property they lived in, which had a very large garden, to restore the family fortune. Frances Smith grew tiny vegetables for the restaurant market. Thyme Out by Katie Fforde - 9780099280248 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. It is a long time ago now but I loved these tiny glimpses of other women’s lives. Thyme Out by Katie Fforde, 9780099280248, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. It was a series of very short films called ‘A Woman Called Smith’ and it was about – yes – woman called Smith. I was inspired by a television programme for this one.
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