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A Vintage Affair
- Author: Isabel Wolff
- Category: Fiction Commercial
- Publisher: HarperCollins (UK)
- Pub date: 12 January 2009
- Length: 423 pages
About A Vintage Affair
What a lovely book! ... A rather bittersweet love story is described in wonderful, vivid detail; brilliantly well-drawn characters abound and the vintage bits are very well researched… Read this if you’re in need of a serious feelgood factor
– DAILY MAIL
A VINTAGE AFFAIR centres on 33-year old Phoebe Swift who has just opened her own vintage dress shop – the fulfilment of a long held dream. Phoebe loves the process of repairing and restoring these glamorous old clothes so that they get the chance to lead a new life. But there is something in Phoebe’s own life that she cannot restore – her best friend Emma has recently died. Phoebe struggles with her loss, and with the fact that she blames herself for what happened to Emma on that fateful Valentine’s Day night.
In the meantime Phoebe’s 62 year old father is having a baby; her mother’s having a face-lift; and a charming man is pursuing Phoebe – but at twenty years her senior can he seriously tempt her? With all this whirling around in her mind, Phoebe goes to buy some clothes from an elderly Frenchwoman, Therese, and a bond between the two women is formed. Therese’s story about her betrayal, six decades earlier, of a childhood friend is to resonate piercingly with Phoebe’s own story. In a remarkable twist, Phoebe discovers something that is able to bring Therese peace at last. But will Phoebe ever find it herself?
About the Author
Isabel Wolff is a bestselling author whose eight romantic comedy novels have been published in twenty nine languages, selling a million copies in France alone. Isabel’s debut novel, THE TRIALS OF TIFFANY TROTT (HarperCollins 1998) grew out of her popular Daily Telegraph novel of the same name and was swiftly followed by THE MAKING OF MINTY MALONE, OUT OF THE BLUE, RESCUING ROSE, BEHAVING BADLY, A QUESTION OF LOVE, FORGET ME NOT and A VINTAGE AFFAIR, which spent six months in the Amazon contemporary Fiction Top 100 and was an Amazon Book of the Year for 2009. Her latest novel, THE VERY PICTURE OF YOU will be published by HarperCollins in September 2011.
In her fiction Isabel expertly blends pathos with humour to create novels that, while being page-turning, commercial reads are also extremely well-written, engaging, poignant and uplifting. She has been shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award (2004) and for the American Libraries Association Reading List - Women’s Fiction (2011).
Before becoming a novelst Isabel was a successful broadcaster and journalist, writing for The Spectator, Evening Standard, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and the Independent on Sunday. She has presented radio programmes on BBC World Service and on Radio 4, and was a regular newspaper reviewer on BBC Breakfast news. Isabel lives in London with her family.