{"id":4513503805484,"title":"Going Dutch (2007)","handle":"going-dutch-2007","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile I was writing Practically Perfect we were having our house remodelled.  (I still thank my neighbour for instigating it – the improvements were vast.)  We rented a house for most of the time but towards the end, we moved onto our Dutch barge in London.  Being there for longer than usual of course, made me want to set a book on it.  Someone we met at a party suggested the title.  Titles are always tricky and so I was delighted to have one before I started. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is one of those books with two points of view.  If the story is right, I enjoy doing this but I find it quite impossible if the story doesn’t work.  But I had a story and a lot of recent barge experience.  The barge in this book is exactly as it was before it too was done up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI had a deadline to reach while we were there and at 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(Singer, not fish, just to be clear.)  He had been climbing in Scotland and instead of putting up a tent, one day they made a snow hole.  I asked him if he would tell me about them and he said he would but that I couldn’t set a love scene in one.  I said he wasn’t to worry about that, that was my job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough I had been to Scotland every year of my married life, even before I was married I wasn’t entirely confident about this setting.  I had always visited in summer or in winter, but I hadn’t been there when the heather was out, for example.  Although we continue to visit Scotland every year I still mostly miss the heather.  I had to set the book far further North than the Perthshire I knew well, and I had to calculate when there would be enough snow for a snow hole and working backwards had to work out when my story should start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy heroine was a virtual assistant, something that is quite common nowadays but then was a very new concept.  I met on (virtually) and she actually assisted me by finding a mountain rescue team I could ask questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore recently I’ve set other books in Scotland and am fairly confident about it now as long as I don’t forget the midges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0099415550\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;camp=1634\u0026amp;creative=6738\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0099415550\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;tag=katieffordede-21\u0026amp;linkId=dbb63230706ad9e4ad69244fe35de280\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"basketButton\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e","published_at":"2020-02-05T10:57:06+00:00","created_at":"2020-02-05T11:05:42+00:00","vendor":"Katie Fforde","type":"books","tags":["book","Highland Fling","Katie Fforde"],"price":899,"price_min":899,"price_max":899,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32044350898220,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9780712669733","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":false,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Highland Fling (2002)","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":899,"weight":318,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9780712669733","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/katiefforde.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/2._Highland_Fling_new_cover.jpg?v=1582547023"],"featured_image":"\/\/katiefforde.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/2._Highland_Fling_new_cover.jpg?v=1582547023","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":6594410020908,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":753,"width":488,"src":"\/\/katiefforde.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/2._Highland_Fling_new_cover.jpg?v=1582547023"},"aspect_ratio":0.648,"height":753,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/katiefforde.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/2._Highland_Fling_new_cover.jpg?v=1582547023","width":488}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was the first book I wrote that wasn’t set in Gloucestershire, apart from the canals of London that were the setting for my second book, The Rose Revived.   I was moved to try this different setting because of something I overheard one of our choir members saying to a fellow bass. (Singer, not fish, just to be clear.)  He had been climbing in Scotland and instead of putting up a tent, one day they made a snow hole.  I asked him if he would tell me about them and he said he would but that I couldn’t set a love scene in one.  I said he wasn’t to worry about that, that was my job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlthough I had been to Scotland every year of my married life, even before I was married I wasn’t entirely confident about this setting.  I had always visited in summer or in winter, but I hadn’t been there when the heather was out, for example.  Although we continue to visit Scotland every year I still mostly miss the heather.  I had to set the book far further North than the Perthshire I knew well, and I had to calculate when there would be enough snow for a snow hole and working backwards had to work out when my story should start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMy heroine was a virtual assistant, something that is quite common nowadays but then was a very new concept.  I met on (virtually) and she actually assisted me by finding a mountain rescue team I could ask questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore recently I’ve set other books in Scotland and am fairly confident about it now as long as I don’t forget the midges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0099415550\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;camp=1634\u0026amp;creative=6738\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0099415550\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;tag=katieffordede-21\u0026amp;linkId=dbb63230706ad9e4ad69244fe35de280\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"basketButton\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e"}

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