Anna St George

A Girl And Her Chateau Anna St George

For fashionable, gorgeous Vivienne De Lacy the idea of inheriting a chateau seems ridiculous at first but she soon gets caught up in the whole magic and enchantment of a 17th Century chateau, and the idea of French couture living and masque balls. After all it's a grand building with sixty rooms and glorious fairy tale towers on each corner and set on a hundred acres of rolling hills and prime woodland. But the fairy tale dream soon turns to a nightmare when she discovers the chateau has many challenges such as a leaky roof, dry rot and decades of neglect and what's worse, she can't speak a word of French. She soon makes friends among the local group of chateau owners and she is kindly informed by Mrs Jones that, 'Owning a chateau is not a venture for the faint-hearted my dear. It takes courage to walk through those doors and face the reality behind the dream. It's a horror facing dry rot, broken pipes and decades of dust and getting up some days to roofs that have collapsed during the night. And you think you're moving into a house that has been vacant for decades but it's anything but vacant. Mice and birds and spiders have been living in it for centuries." How will this fashionable city girl from London, used to all the mod cons, cope with a vast chateau out in the countryside and all the mounting problems that come with it? And then there is matter of Jack Perry from a local chateau who has the undeniable skill of completely irritating her, however he is extremely handsome and charming and he has a talent for pressing all the right buttons. And then there are those she would rather bury her head in the sand and forget like Celia Grande a woman with too high an opinion of herself who also has her eyes on Jack Perry and a determination to make sure that Vivienne's business venture of opening the chateau to the public is a failure. Vivienne isn't one to give up, however, this overwhelming challenge threatens to take her under.