Wild Designs A Novel [Paperback]

Althea Farraday is a thirty-eight-year-old divorced mother of three who's got a teenage son who's a Buddhist, a hypercritical sister who knows how to push all her buttons, a job on the endangered species list, and a love life to match. Just as she's settling in to a comfortable level of chaos, a near-perfect man enters her life. Equipped to steal her heart and help turn her passion for designing gardens into a new career, Patrick Donahugh may be too good to be true. Amid wild roses, California poppies, scarlet flax, sweet rocket, love-in-mist, and, of course, plenty of dirt,Wild Designsis a refreshingly honest and funny read that celebrates the almost-ready-to-bloom aspect of all our lives.

Katie Ffordeis the author of four acclaimed novels, most recentlyStately Pursuits, which reached #7 on the London Times bestseller list. Born in Wimbledon, she now lives in Gloucestershire, England, where she is at work on her next novel.

A delight...Althea copes with single-mom tribulations with such grace and wit that you wish she could move in next door. Detroit Free Press

A delicious romantic romp. Booklist (Starred Review)

Old-fashioned romance of the best sort...funny, comforting. Elle