title: An Old Fashioned Love
author: Delancey, Diney
description: Marti Howard inherits a cottage in the Lake District, where she spent holidays as a child. She intends selling the cottage as she runs a successful catering business in Birmingham, and she is hoping to marry her boyfriend, Neil. Whilst arranging the sale, she meets up with an old friend, Carrick Blake, now running his family home as a Country House Hotel. Her return to the Lakes and her meeting with Carrick and his mother, Mary, alters Marti's perception of life and her future.