Return to Prior's Ford
This delightful slice of Scottish village life is filled with likable people, their joys and sorrows, their relationships and growth as they unfold from June until near year’s end in the village of Prior’s Ford. Village life is shaken up when Ginny, who has restored the gardens at Linn Hall, is visited by her mother, a famous actress who takes an interfering interest in the community. An aspiring writer who secretly writes an advice column wins a fiction contest. A retired professor who writes scholarly articles moves to town, bringing an interesting secret along. A young boy plays matchmaker. A surrogate mother is found by her adult daughter. Sweet romances ensue and a renewal of the spark of romance is rekindled between a long-married couple. Hood’s latest gentle read (Mystery in Prior’s Ford, 2012), a view into nicely ordinary lives, is the perfect antidote to Fifty Shades of Grey. Some earlier books in the series were published under the pseudonym Eve Houston. --Diana Tixier Herald