Highland Fling

Highland Fling

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After a fight with her boyfriend, a business trip to Scotland is the perfect diversion for Jenny Porter, who works as a virtual assistant for a financial executive. Dispatched to assess a failing textile mill, Jenny instead finds herself determined to save it at any cost after befriending its charming employees. That cost might just be her sanity as she stretches her resou...more
Hardcover, 326 pages
Published August 1st 2003 by St. Martin's Press (first published 2002)
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..Mary..
Avevo bisogno di un bel romance, siccome adoro la Scozia, quindi non potevo non tuffarmi in questo libro.
Ma vediamo la trama:
"Di mestiere Jenny Porter presta la propria opera professionale a gente che non incontra mai di persona. No, non fa il sicario, bensì l'"assistente virtuale", ed è tanto risoluta ed efficiente nel lavoro, quanto è una frana a gestire la sua vita privata. Per questo, quando un cliente le chiede di recarsi in Scozia per valutare la situazione economica di una fabbrica tess...more
Lucy
Jenny Porter is sent to Scotland to look into a failing woolen mill. She finds herself wanting to save it if she can, for the employees if not for the owner. She's woefully unprepared for Scottish early winter weather, especially when the place she's to stay in is an unheated mansion, with not very good food. She tries to help out whoever and however she can, being a very soft touch. She has a peculiar reaction to an obnoxious man she meets while helping out at a fast food stand: she hates him a...more
Debbie
I picked this book up because it was set in the Scottish Highlands. It was an enjoyable light read with a very realistic view of Scotland in winter. It was refreshing to read of cold, draughty stately homes and dismal weather rather than the rose tinted view of Scotland and its weather that writers often give us.

Unfortunately Katie Fforde's realism didn't extend to the romantic story line which was very 'Mills and Boon'-ish with an equally unbelievable soft-focus ending.

Still, there were interes...more
Kate
I really enjoy Katie Fforde books so when I saw this in my local bookshop at a bargain price I couldn’t resist.

The pace was comfortable and I quickly fell into the storyline, not wanting to put the book down. Unfortunately this did take me rather a long time to read but it wasn’t at all because of the book – I had so much going on in my real life that I just didn’t have time to sit and read as much as usual .

Jenny was a sweet character who seemed unable to say no to people but I loved how feisty...more
Sara ♥
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Rebecca
(You can also read this review here: http://threadsfans.blogspot.co.uk/201...)

Highland Fling by Katie Fforde is about a woman called Jenny (Genevieve's her full name) who has a job as a virtual assisitant. When her client asks her to go up to Scotland to check on a mill he's thinking of closing she ends up trying to save the mill and work at a road side cafe (the Homely Haggis). Then, to complicate things even further, her boyfriend (who she's "practically engaged to" but doesn't actually love a...more
Shannon
Ughhh I gave up on this book and returned it without finishing it. Story has the same plot line as the author has done before, female character as a fish out of water, quirky characters and unexpected romance.
Linda Day
Read on the recommend of my friend, Rosemary, I liked this quirky little story of romance in the snows of Scotland amid the closing of the town-dependent mill, the annoying family of the Lady Dalmain, the side adventures of The Homely Haggis et all.

I found Genevieve (Jenny) a little too abrasive with Ross (the threatening land-lord) for the romance that developed (did that spoil the surprise ? I think not !
I had that figured out by Ch. 2. another complaint I had).

I learned a lot about wool, fe...more
Liesel
A little slower of a book than the others, but still a nice finish. A few things that I like about Katie Fforde:
When driving is involved, no drinking is done by the driver
Pregnancy is always a very real possibility after sex
The couples always get engaged by the end
The heroine always falls asleep in the presence of the hero and it's generally in a car on the way to a date. And the hero doesn't mind. I don't know why I like this, but I do.

Something I don't like:
The heroine always finds as many ex...more
Amy Brown
Jenny Porter is a virtual assistant sent on an uncharacteristic real-life job, to check out the state of a woolen mill in Scotland. She's happy to go, to get away from her overbearing snob of a boyfriend and prove to him that her VA business *is* a real job. Once there she finds a whole variety of problems to solve, but finds herself growing too attached to the people she meets to do the job she thinks she is there to do: declare the demise of the mill. There's also a dashing stranger who is mor...more
Goddess Of Blah
The first time I read this - I loved it.

Recent;y read it again and I loathed it. The main protagonist are superb. But the remaining characters are just annoying!!

Those characters ruined the book for me. The whole "marrying beneath one's class" is so old. If it weren't for the remaining characters - I would give this book a 5 star rating.

If you wish to read a good Katie Fford book then there are plenty more to choose from. Stately Pursuits, Living Dangerously, Flora's Lot, Summer of Love, Artist...more
Rosemary
Katie Fforde is a very light read, a total escape. I love that the books take place in England and Scotland and I have been to some of the places. This was a fun read. It was not all that believable. Jenny is a Virtual Assistant sent to find out about a failing Mill, she falls in love with Scotland and the people, and does everything she can to save the Mill. In the mean time meats and annoying bloke. The romance starts. I liked it as quick read. Not clean surprise surprise some language and one...more
Wanderer ♔ Wanderlust ♔


Jenny Porter, who recently started a new career as a virtual assistant, and her boyfriend Henry. A virtual assistant (as we are told over and over) is someone who does various tasks for clients that hire her over the internet. Her current assignment is to travel to Scotland to assess an old family-run mill recently purchased by her current client, M.R Grant-Dempsey. With Henry's disapproval of her new job we, the readers, are already made aware that Henry = ass therefore, Jenny should go to Scot...more
Trish
Bad. Take my other review for "Going Dutch" and you've got this book wrapped up. I did like the setting and characters a bit more in this one. Crotchety old ladies do it for me, I guess.

Quirky yet amazing protagonist with a heart of gold has jerk boyfriend. Goes for job in beautiful country. Finds new love with flawed Byronic-Heathcliff prototype, only much less developed, love, blah blah blah. Jerk comes back into picture. I don't understand the point of setting up such a cliched scenario. Ter...more
Kat A
My friend Amy passed this one on, and I thought it was a decent, light read. Too harlequin romance for my liking, with the "explosions went off behind my eyes and my skin sizzled as we kissed" type mooning about, but the story was pretty good. I like the aristocratic Scottish setting, and the different characters. A good read, if you like romance novels.
Tory
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Virginia
This was my first Katie Fforde, and I will read more! Though the story was a bit predictable, I think some of it was on purpose. I liked the characters a lot, especially the colorful supporting cast. The heroine's propensity for cluelessness (something that usually drives me nuts) was easily pushed aside for the sake of the story.
Lianna
Again this was ok and there were things I liked. But I just don't feel the main people we are supposed to be rooting on getting together, have had enough time to be in love. I don't feel the love and the ending just happens as soon as something happens. I want to actually see them together or feel how they feel.
Cathy
I would have loved this book to last longer. A British woman in a less than stellar relationship heads to Scotland to close a company for her client and ends up trying to save it instead. Very quirky characters, somewhat predictable, but overall a really enjoyable read.
Abbie
This was pretty bad even for chick-lit. It probably had one of the dumbest endings to a book that I have ever read. The overall story could maybe have been good but the writing was terrible. I don't recommend it and I don't think I'll be reading anything else from this author.
Purvashree
its a easy read...beautifully written...its a very breezy read if i have to say...i loved it...as i am a fan of chick lit..n its definitely in the category...t characters in t plot are nicely written...
would like to really more from t author...

♥pooh♥
Michele
I liked this book, but not quite as much as her others...did they save the mill? Were they able to sell the exotic fabrics? Did Henry leave? Those weren't really important questions, but too many loose ends for me.
Nicolette
If you're looking for a light chick-lit with all the frills and fluff then this is the book to read. There are a couple of spelling mistakes, which is why I didn't give it three stars.
Anne-Marie
Well, the story was not that good and we could all guess the forthcoming events. But it was in Highlands. So a winner for my heart. And a romance once in a while is not that bad... no?
Jenni
This book is so british, but so cosy and fresh. Jenny is really a fighter and doesn't back off things that easily. She got a happy ending and it was a good read. Really enjoyed it.
Lisa
A fairly formulaic plotline, but entertaining, and an easy read. Sometimes you want to be challenged by a book, sometimes you want to just curl up and enjoy your escape from reality!
Mulva?
It was okay. I would have liked a little more relationship development. I can't stand when the guy and the girl are always fighting and somehow that turns into an intense relationship. Can't you have two people who actually get along sometimes???
With that said... I'll still give Fforde another read. I'm not THAT picky.
princessP
I really enjoyed this book. At the beginning, I thought Jenny should slap a few people--I guess she's a little more mature than I am. LOL. However, she did get more spunky as the book progressed, and I really enjoyed reading it. Great book!
Karyn
I enjoyed this book as I do most romance/chick lit books. It was a light read and I liked all the people characterized. I just feel the ending could have been expanded upon
Obisbooks
Chick lit, not not too bad in the beginning but the character became very annoying and I only finished to be sure she ended up with the guy we knew she was supposed to and how the proposal would go.
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Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born 27 September 1952 in England, UK, the daughter of Shirley Barbara Laub and Michael Willoughby Gordon-Cumming. Her grandfather was Sir William Gordon-Cumming. Her sister is fellow writer Jane Gordon-Cumming. Katie married with Desmond Fforde, cousin of the also writer Jasper Fforde. She had three children: Guy, Francis and Briony and didn't start writing befor...more
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