Tongue in Cheek by Walker, Fiona - 2006

US: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006. Very Good. From the very first day that they move to the Oddlode Valley, it's inevitab le that young teacher Mo Stillitoe, recently separated socialite Diana Lamp eter, and cool, retired dressage diva Anke Brakespear will find their lives entangled. Despite their differing generations and backgrounds, the women are on a relocation collision course. As inept removal men deliver furnitur e and even horses to the wrong houses, other moves are being made. Mo's bad boy lover takes Diana's eye, Anke's flirtatious husband immediately sugges ts Mo hop into bed with him, and Diana's local heartthrob brother comes joy fully face to face with the Danish ice-maiden he posted on his wall as a te enager. As a long, hot Indian summer burns its embers into winter, the newc omers settle into their beautiful frost-hugged surroundings, generating eno ugh heat to melt every heart in Oddlode. New passions ignite and old flames are fanned amid the honeyed villages, enchanted gardens, haunted parkland, and raucous country social life. The heat is on, and sparks fly but is thi s just a flash in the pan or is somebody fuelling the fire.