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2000s: It’s never too late to fall in love
A Rose Petal Summer
What you need to know before your trail
Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland.
She’s answered an ad in The Lady: being a companion to an elderly gentleman who lives in a country estate could be perfect! Surely it’s time to make a change and do something different for a while?
The fact that she may also see Alec, the young man who she met some years previously and who she has always thought of as her ‘one who got away’, is of course purely incidental.
Soon Caro is falling in love – not only with Alec but with the stunning country house she’s now living in. But the estate is in financial difficulties, and Caro soon realises there’s only one way to rescue it.
So begins a magical romantic summer, one that will take Caro from Scotland to London and the south of France, in search of a classic lost perfume that might just restore all their fortunes.
Locations
Reset- Scotland - Scottish Highlands
- A: Loch Awe
- B: Loch Awe
- England - London
- C: London Canal Museum
- France - South of France
- D: Grasse - Perfume Museum
Travel Guide
Travel around scented with rose petals with Katie Fforde
The locations are vague and even fictional yet the settings are evoked well and there is travel between London, Scottish Highlands and the South of France.
The main setting is Scotland and the highland castle and grounds where the old man lives. Imagine being your own Monach of the Glen? There’s plenty of trees, fields for miles, fresh air, sheep and stags. A lovely loch of course in the middle of it all. There’s no real Glen Liddel but the Highlands are covered in lochs so there’s plenty to choose from and pretend.
France
Ahh the south of France! There’s perfume in the air and so there should be as it’s the perfume capital of France, if not the world, we’re headed to. Grasse boasts more than a few museums and perfume shops to visit.
There may be a scent of roses in the air!
BookTrail Boarding Pass: A Rose Petal Summer
Destination/location: Scottish Highlands London, South of France, Grasse Author/guide: Katie Fforde Departure Time: 2000s
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