A Fine Restoration

By Kitty Ray

Published Jan 2010

Orphaned at the age of sixteen and uprooted from her home in Norfolk to stay with relatives, interior designer Clementine Lee now lives and works in London. With a job she loves, a stylish flat she has designed herself and a gently promising relationship with her boss, she has everything to look forward to…until, in the space of one traumatic week, she loses it all – her lover, he livelihood and the roof over her head. Seeking solace in a return to the village where she grae up, she takes a post as a housekeeper to a Norfolk book dealer, but her new employer is a difficult man, as profoundly damaged as his crumbling Victorian mansion.

Embarking upon the daunting task of renovating his dilapidated home, and still struggling with her own problems, it dawns upon Clementine that it is not just the house that is in need of restoration…