The Real Katie Lavender

Katie Lavender has always thought she was pretty unshockable, until a year after her mother's death she receives a letter from a solicitor telling her that the man she thought was her father, in fact wasn't. Her real father, a man named Stirling Nightingale, has for years been building a trust fund for her. And now she's of an age to collect it.

But Katie's not interested in the money. She wants to know about the man instead. So decides to do some snooping. She tracks him down to a beautiful riverside home on the night he's hosting a birthday party for his 90-year-old mother.

And as she's hovering outside, Katie is mistaken for a replacement waitress - an opportunity just too good to miss. And so Katie discovers that the Nightingales are far from your normal family... But what makes a normal family anyway?

“With the turn of every absorbing page, you'll find yourself caught in the rapture and despair of each character as they find their way through this beguiling drama.”

This will make you giggle and weep in equal measure WOMAN
With marvellous writing, eccentric characters and a great plot, this has it all CLOSER
With the turn of every absorbing page, you'll find yourself caught in the rapture and despair of each character as they find their way through this beguiling drama CANDIS
A great big romantic, emotional and involving read WOMAN & HOME
She writes with a wry sense of humour and this story quickly reels you in... EVENING TELEGRAPH
An extraordinary deftness of touch, coupled with some searing insights into both how relationships fail, and can work DAILY MIRROR
This will make you giggle and weep in equal measure. WOMAN (Special)
With marvellous writing, eccentric characters and a great plot, this has it all. CLOSER
CANDIS
A great big romantic, emotional and involving read. -- Fanny Blake WOMAN & HOME
She writes with a wry sense of humour and this story quickly reels you in... EVENING TELEGRAPH

With an insatiable appetite for other people's business, Erica James will readily strike up conversation with strangers in the hope of unearthing a useful gem for her writing. The author of numerous bestselling novels, including GARDENS OF DELIGHT, winner of the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award, Erica now divides her time between Cheshire and Lake Como in Italy. Visit her website

Katie Lavender has always thought she was pretty unshockable, until a year after her mother's death she receives a letter from a solicitor telling her that the man she thought was her father, in fact wasn't. Her real father, a man named Stirling Nightingale, has for years been building a trust fund for her. And now she's of an age to collect it.But Katie's not interested in the money. She wants to know about the man instead. So decides to do some snooping. She tracks him down to a beautiful riverside home on the night he's hosting a birthday party for his 90-year-old mother.And as she's hovering outside, Katie is mistaken for a replacement waitress - an opportunity just too good to miss. And so Katie discovers that the Nightingales are far from your normal family... But what makes a normal family anyway?

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