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Stately pursuits

"You're not doing very much at the moment, darling. I don't suppose you'd care to house-sit for a while'" Thus begins the irresistible story of two fixer-uppers-an old house and a young woman-and their efforts to recapture their true luster. When Hetty Longden, freshly dumped and brokenhearted, agrees to look after her great-uncle's long-abandoned mansion in the British countryside, she's at something of a lifetime low. With no job, no lover, no prospects, and no particular talent for resuscitating crumbling estates, she hope for nothing more than some good old-fashioned escape. What she finds includes a cast of quirky an ever-present neighbors, a couple of SNAGs (Sensitive New Age Guys), some very humorless bank officials, two disarming little canines, one gracious, dilapidated, romantic old house, and, just maybe, enough elbow grease to polish everything up again. A British bestseller that's as inviting as an elegant old house full of unexplored rooms (after a good scrubbing-down, of course), Stately Pursuits is the funniest, smartest, and warmest read of the season.

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  • "Nachdem die 30-jährige Hetty ihren Freund gerade auf frischer Tat mit einer anderen ertappt hat und überdies auch noch ihren Job los ist, kommt ihr das Angebot wie gerufen, für eine Weile den leer stehenden Landsitz ihres Grossonkels Sam zu hüten. Wie Hetty feststellen muss, hält das wunderschöne Anwesen jedoch so manche Überraschung bereit. Und dann taucht eines Tages auch noch Sams Erbe, der raubeinige Connor, mit einem ungewöhnlichen Ansinnen dort auf."
  • ""You're not doing very much at the moment, darling. I don't suppose you'd care to house-sit for a while'" Thus begins the irresistible story of two fixer-uppers-an old house and a young woman-and their efforts to recapture their true luster. When Hetty Longden, freshly dumped and brokenhearted, agrees to look after her great-uncle's long-abandoned mansion in the British countryside, she's at something of a lifetime low. With no job, no lover, no prospects, and no particular talent for resuscitating crumbling estates, she hope for nothing more than some good old-fashioned escape. What she finds includes a cast of quirky an ever-present neighbors, a couple of SNAGs (Sensitive New Age Guys), some very humorless bank officials, two disarming little canines, one gracious, dilapidated, romantic old house, and, just maybe, enough elbow grease to polish everything up again. A British bestseller that's as inviting as an elegant old house full of unexplored rooms (after a good scrubbing-down, of course), Stately Pursuits is the funniest, smartest, and warmest read of the season."@en
  • "A romantic comedy on Hetty, a woman house-sitting a mansion for a hospitalized uncle in England. On learning that Connor, a nephew, intends to raze it upon inheritance, Hetty organizes a campaign to preserve the mansion and it is war between niece and nephew, until love intervenes."
  • "A romantic comedy on Hetty, a woman house-sitting a mansion for a hospitalized uncle in England. On learning that Connor, a nephew, intends to raze it upon inheritance, Hetty organizes a campaign to preserve the mansion and it is war between niece and nephew, until love intervenes."@en
  • "Hauptbeschreibung Nachdem Hetty ihren Freund gerade auf frischer Tat mit einer anderen ertappt hat und überdies auch noch ihren Job los ist, kommt ihr das Angebot wie gerufen, für eine Weile den leer stehenden Landsitz ihres Großonkels Sam zu hüten. Wie Hetty feststellen muss, hält das wunderschöne Anwesen jedoch so manche Überraschung bereit. Und dann taucht eines Tages auch noch Sams Erbe, der raubeinige Connor, mit einem ungewöhnlichen Ansinnen dort auf -"

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  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Romance fiction"

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  • "Eine ungewöhnliche Begegnung : Roman"
  • "Eine ungewöhnliche Begegnung Roman"
  • "Stately pursuits"@en
  • "Stately pursuits"
  • "Un uomo poco raccomandabile"@it
  • "Un uomo poco raccomandabile"

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