A Girl And Her Chateau
by Anna St George
For
fashionable, gorgeous Vivienne De Lacy the idea of inheriting a chateau seems
ridiculous at first but she soon gets caught up in the whole magic and
enchantment of a 17th Century chateau, and the idea of French
couture living and masque balls. After all it’s a grand building with sixty
rooms and glorious fairy tale towers on each corner and set on a hundred acres
of rolling hills and prime woodland. But
the fairy tale dream soon turns to a nightmare when she discovers the chateau has
many challenges such as a leaky roof, dry rot and decades of neglect and what’s
worse, she can’t speak a word of French.
She
soon makes friends among the local group of chateau owners and she is kindly
informed by Mrs Jones that, ‘Owning a chateau is not a venture for the faint-hearted my dear. It takes courage to walk through those doors and face the
reality behind the dream. It’s a horror facing dry rot, broken pipes and
decades of dust and getting up some days to roofs that have collapsed during
the night. And you think you’re moving into a house that has been vacant for
decades but it’s anything but vacant. Mice and birds and spiders have been
living in it for centuries.”
How will this
fashionable city girl from London, used to all the mod cons, cope with a vast
chateau out in the countryside and all the mounting problems that come with it?
And then there is matter of Jack Perry from a local chateau who has the
undeniable skill of completely irritating her, however he is extremely handsome
and charming and he has a talent for pressing all the right buttons. And then
there are those she would rather bury her head in the sand and forget like
Celia Grande a woman with too high an opinion of herself who also has her eyes
on Jack Perry and a determination to make sure that Vivienne’s business venture
of opening the chateau to the public is a failure. Vivienne isn’t one to give
up, however, this overwhelming challenge threatens to take her under.
