The Bachelor (Sweet Valley Series, book 3) by Tilly Bagshawe
Written by Nina Maria
The Honourable Henry Saxton-Brae is England’s most eligible bachelor who has it all – an aristrocatic title, a successful business that brings millions in his bank account, a supermodel fiancée; you name it, Henry has it. However despite everything that Henry already has, his latest possession is what he thinks that completes him the most: the idyllic Hansborough Castle in England’s famously beautiful Swell Valley. IT doesn’t matter that Henry’s older brother, the Earl, has the Hatchings – the family’s estate where Henry grew up. As long as Henry has Hansborough and nothing can top that!
Henry wants Hansborough to be a homey estate, he plans to settledown there with his loyal fiancée. He is sure that he is ready to settledown now… He also wishes Hansborough to be the place where his children will create their childhood memories just like Henry made his in the Hatchings. Hence, Hansborough needs to be restored to its glory. For Henry whose life is perfect, it only makes sense that only the best people working on the best estate in the Swell Valley, the legendary designer Graydon James.
Flora Fitzwilliam was sent by Graydon to Hansborough. Life is good for Flora. Mason Parker, the Upper East Side’s eligible man is her fiancé. She has the most-envied job in design as Graydon’s right hand. Flora hasn’t been able to spend enough time with Mason lately due to all of the business travel and crazy working hours she did. She hasn’t even started planning her own wedding! But Mason needs to understand that working on Hansborough is an opportunity of a lifetime. Flora is sure that she will be able to manage it all and keep everyone happy and perfect as it is.
Unbeknownst to them, Hansborough will change what-they-think-as-their perfect lives forever.
Simply, this is a story of a second son of the aristocracy who wants to prove himself to the world and tries to make sense of the unsettledness in his heart despite having everything in the world to settle down. An ordinary woman who enters the world of the opulence yet never really feels that she fits in. Two people who in combination look like they have everything that the world has to offer, whose lives look so perfect in the surface, but deep down inside they are constantly trying to fit in into their own ‘perfect’ life. Their hearts long for a life that feels more real, where they can be themselves with their humanly flaws and can bare their own insecurities without the risk of being unloved.
It is a story about life with its humour and English countryside in the background. 3/5
