Isabel Wolff is one of my favourite authors - I’ve just recently reviewed A Vintage Affair and I reviewed Forget Me Not a while back - and I love how her books are so real. I’ve read most of Isabel’s books and have loved them. I was thrilled when Isabel agreed to do an author interview!

1. Describe your novel, A Vintage Affair, in a sentence.

It’s a story of friendship, regret and redemption, set in a vintage dress shop in contemporary south London, and in wartime Provence.

2. Please tell us there will be a next book?! I’ve just finished - and loved - A Vintage Affair so I eagerly await your next novel!

I’m working on it now - it’s a about a portrait painter. I always give my heroines interesting jobs - for example agony aunt, animal behaviourist, radio journalist, vintage dress shop owner etc. - because I think it’s interesting for the reader to learn something about a different world while at the same time having what is, hopefully, an engaging and compelling read.

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Phoebe Swift is finally realising her dream and is opening up Village Vintage, her very own shop selling vintage clothing and accessories. It’s all going well, so why is Phoebe still a bit down? It turns out she’s carrying a terrible guilt after her friend, Emma, tragically died.

Opening Village Vintage introduces Phoebe to Mrs. Bell (Therese), an elderly French lady who also feels terribly guilty and has a story to tell… In their own way, they both manage to help each other overcome their guilt.

Is it enough to enable Phoebe to love again?

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It’s never easy putting down new roots!

After the sudden death of her mother, Anna Temple realises she needs to live for the moment and pursue her dream of becoming a garden designer. Swapping hedge funds for herbaceous borders, and shares for scented stocks, she says goodbye to City life for a fresh start in the country.

But on the eve of her sparkling new future she meets the gorgeous Xan and their chance encounter changes her world in more ways than she could ever imagined — enter baby Milly.

Juggling her new business with the joys and fears of motherhood is a struggle, especially alone and when Anna unearths a long-buried family secret, skeletons tumble from the closet. Suddenly nothing is as it seems, past or present! Read my review below
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