Shadow and Substance is the story of Harriet Lalonde, the spoilt and only daughter at Château Montclair, in the lush land of Armagnac. The fairytale spell of her early life is first broken when her English mother dies and her French father, Antoine, marries his young secretary, Françoise. Harriet shares her autocratic Grandmère’s disapproval and escapes to read English at Cambridge. Daily life slips into the stream of fiction as she unconsciously identifies with romantic literary heroines in search of a hero. She soon finds love in the perfect form of Steven Somerfield. They meet, not in the moonlight setting of Harriet’s imagination, but at her English Grandmother’s funeral.
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By AVRIL HINTON
Mar 16, 2009
"Shadow and Substance" This is a the sort of book you can't put down... or want to until the sweet and bitter end...ahhhhhhhhh...the course of true love running a bumpy old path through the hallowed halls of Cambridge University, the rustic Suffolk countryside and most of all the Armagnac vineyards of the Chateau. The book has everything ..romance and reality.
