The Purveyor of Enchantment

Clementine Hope, thirty-something and newly divorced, lives in a small Hampshire town, teaching music and working on a collection of fairy tales left to her by her Great Aunt Elvira. But mostly she worries. She worries about the rising crime rate. She worries about disease and illness, about offending God and, in the rare moments when she is at peace with Him, about upsetting the man in the carpet shop. When her sister Ophelia asks her if there’s anything she’s not frightened of, Clementine has to think for a while before replying, ‘Doris Day.

But when she falls in love with Nathaniel Scott, the son of her next-door neighbour, her neuroses threaten to destroy her hard-won happiness. Determined to take control of her life, Clementine resolves to transform herself from victim to heroine, slay her personal dragon of fears and phobias, and rescue her very own Prince Charming.