Azur Like It - Wendy Holden

A romp on the Riviera

Kate, a journalist in a small northern town, dreams of a glamorous life in the South of France. And they don't come much less glamorous than covering black pudding competitions for the Slackmucklethwaite Mercury and living with your parents in a semi called Wit's End. When a short, fat and ruthless tycoon takes over the paper, slashes budgets and sacks staff, things go from bad to worse.

Except the tycoon's handsome son, Nat, incredibly, is interested in Kate. More amazingly still, he wants to help her with her Riviera dream. In love and heady with happiness, Kate jets off with Nat for the Cannes Film Festival and life in the Provencal sun. But Nat is not to be trusted. Nor is the postcard-perfect village of Ste Jeanne quite all it seems. Can a double-crossing interior designer, a grumpy countess, a handsome, headstrong artist and a gangster with a heart of gold show Kate the way to happiness again?

Number one bestselling author Wendy Holden has written ten consecutive Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. A former journalist on the Sunday Times , Tatler and the Mail on Sunday , she contributes to a range of publications and is a TV and radio regular. She was a judge for the Costa 2013 Novel and Book of the Year Awards. Wendy lives with her husband and two children in Derbyshire.

Visit her on her website www.wendyholden.net, or follow her on Twitter @Wendy_Holden and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/wendyholdenauthor.

'Deliciously wicked & infectiously naughty - those are the only words to describe Wendy Holden's fifth novel, Azur Like It....I defy anyone to read it without a smile on their lips' Daily Mail, 5/9/03
Daily Mail

'In this fun yarn, Kate gets her story, her perspective & the love of the good guy' Mirror, 6/9/03
Mirror

'Clever potshots from English bestseller Holden...Holden's deft management of a huge cast of zany types ensures that the breakneck pace never flags. Gleeful jumble of Brit-style slapstick, puns, and sly wit. Quite a treat' Kirkus Reviews 15/12/03
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