From London With Love

It's 1968 and it's cold when Felicity arrives in London to stay with her mother, improve her English, do a secretarial course - and meet a suitable man. She is already missing her home in Provence and her extended family. But it's only for a year she tells herself. Then she can go back to France and do what she really wants and become a painter. And then she bumps into Oliver, who is quite the most interesting young man she has ever met.
He lives on a barge for one thing and has a collection of jobs, but his passion is looking for hidden treasures along the shores of the river Thames. In a word he's a mudlarker, and before long Felicity is mudlarking too. She is also pursuing her dreams and painting scenery for Oliver's actor friends. But Oliver a Suitable Man of whom her mother will approve ? Felicity knows she will not... Love, tangled relationships and a real life adventure lie at the heart of Katie Fforde's heart-warming new novel.