Falling in Love with the English Countryside - A Fine Romance

Wonderful writing, illustrations, photos. Great reading for anyone loving Susan Branch or anyone getting to know her. She takes her readers on a voyage to England and all that is wonderful about Englsnd.

I absolutely LOVE this book. The writing- it's just so intimate and personal, as if you're hearing the story in person from a good friend. And the drawings and photos are just so lovely. You will laugh out loud often. I love to read it in the mornings with my tea. Have bought more as gifts for close friends. What a great gift! What a great book!

A charming, delightful book. Loaned to me and I had to buy it for my library. Anyone who loves the English countryside, travel, charming side trips plus delightful snippets of information, recipes,l tips and places you never thought to go needs, this book.

I absolutely adored this book. I am on my second reading. It's THAT good! If you enjoy Susan's drawings, they are plentiful and lovely. If you love her writing, it is wonderful. If you are an anglophile, then you NEED this book. She loves England and all things English. Being of English descent myself, I found her affection for my homeland's gardens and people ever so ducky. This is a true gem of a book. I will read it dozens of times before my time is done on this good earth.

I dearly loved every page of this book written rather like a diary.....wonderful way to enjoy someone else's travels - like you were there going along with the author. Wonderful! Took me to places in England I had never been (behind of the tourist scene)....passed it on to a dear friend who enjoyed it also.

This is a beautifully written, charming book. Really brings the British countryside to life. I love the way it is written in hand writing rather than typed. Very nice illustrations and pictures throughout. Anyone who is crossing on the Queen Mary 2 for a trip to England (like me) needs to read this!

An amazing travelogue that makes you feel like you are traveling right along with Susan Branch and her husband through the small villages of England, stopping at pubs for a cup of tea on a rainy day, visiting historic and literary landmarks, walking through beautiful gardens. Susan's photos and sketches add so much to the story. This book put England much higher on my places I want to visit. I hope to take a trip just like this! This book is one of my favorite books every! I loved it!

I have always enjoyed Susan Branch's cookbooks and her philosophy on life. She is uplifting, happy, fun, and if we lived closer, she would definitely fit in with my group of friends.

This book is simply wonderful. I purchased it before Susan completed writing it and I read it very quickly after that nice mailman delivered it and I just loved it. Couldn't put it down. I have traveled in England a few times and I love the people, the houses, the history, their life, but I have never crossed the ocean in a huge ship, and the places Susan visited were similar to where I went, but new and different. I loved her descriptions and learned so much through her brief history of the places she visited. Susan's drawings add such charm to the book. The photos help tell her story. Susan loves her husband after 25 years and I love mine after 44. This book is so positive and such a lovely reminder that the simple things in life are really what matters; a cup of tea,
a warm scone, a little something to knit, a walk in a world that is appreciated. This book has a special place on my shelf and I just ordered 5 more copies because I want to share my joy with some of my best friends. I'm sure I'll order more. It is a gift. Thank you Susan!

Gorgeous book! Handwritten, with all sorts of information not only on biographies and the English countryside but many other tidbits ... from tea to recipes to decorating inspiration. You read it and want to travel to England and visit Hilltop (Beatrix Potter) and Charleston (Bloomsbury Group), but also get creative yourself. Wonderful book. Wholeheartedly recommend.

Reading this book, handwritten,and illustrated by the author, is like taking a trip all through the romantic towns of old England.
Any fan of Beatrix Potter will want to adds this to their book collection. My 11 year old granddaughter is reading it now.
Beautiful.

Absollutely love this book. It is delightfully written and illustrated with drawings and small pictures. It makes me want to return to England every time I pick it up. I have read excerpts from this book to a friend who is in hospice and bedridden and she seems to enjoy visiting England vicariously.

Beautiful book. It will be a keepsake. Lots of cool pictures. You feel as if you're taking the trip yourself. Susan includes a lot of neat quotes and artistry. It is a book you will reflect on and enjoy!

I bought this for myself. However, gave it to my mom to read. She loved it. The pages are so beautiful and full of personal information about the authors trip. It is reading a journal of a trip to England and all the little details explained so well.

Excellent service. I am in the middle of reading this book, and I'm in love. I've been to England twice and it is such a delight to read the author's account of her visits. Makes me feel as if I'm back there in my beloved English countryside.

I love everything about this book. The way it is written as a diary is so interesting that you feel like you too, are on the trip with the author. The illustrations are so pretty and I am so glad Susan Branch shared her personal pictures. Her work has always been a favorite of mine.

Absolutely, positively LOVE Susan Branch and this is her best work yet. Feel like I'm taking the trip to England with her. It's like a vacation in a book. Well written and beautifully illustrated book that I will read again and again.

Stow away with Susan & Joe on their dreamy Atlantic crossing to England aboard the Queen Mary II, wander alongside them through the cozy hill and dales of the English countryside, stopping by local pubs for tea and Sunday roast. The lovingly handwritten font is surrounded with their personal photos and Susan's artfully charming watercolors of footpaths, castles, sheep, villages and hedgerows. Whimsical gardens and Susan's fantastical journal will make you feel like a guest on their idyllic 2 month journey!

This book is my all time favorite, real, sincere, lovely, includes all things creative and interesting to the reader such as myself, gardens, manor homes, friends, loves, English people, tea's, whatever is British whatever is lovely is in this book, not to even mention delightful and sometime amusing drawings, and photo's. Joe is perfect, Susan is who we would all love to be like. Amazing a so very beautiful from cover to cover, delight. donna bonine.

Susan Branch has never created anything that I didn't love but her illustrated trip to England and around the countryside tops them all. I savoured every page and experience and though I finished reading this book a couple of months ago, I'm ready to start from the beginning and read it again. A Fine Romance is a dream trip in so many ways.

100% Susan Branch! Her delightful personality comes through all aspects of this lovely book. Her watercolors, memories, descriptions of people and places are all there. A charming little book to own.

I was in England several years ago and traveled to some of the same places that Susan Branch writes about it her book. The memories she brings to mind are beautiful. She is a very talented woman. Makes me want to pack my bags and take off.

This is a wonderful book. Highly recommended. If you love the UK and if you love Susan Branch you will love this book as I did. It's like taking a holiday in the English countryside without leaving home.

There is no one like Susan Branch. Her handwritten writing style, her humor, and wit and keen observational skills just made me dream of going to the Lake District and the Cotswolds NOW. I found it hard to put the book down. It was magical!

I loved every minute of A Fine Romance! My husband and I were planning a trip to England and I used Ms Branch's itinerary to help plan my own. I am now a complete Anglophile thanks to her suggestions and my own experiences in this beautiful country.

Don't miss this delightful journal, all hand written, with loads of pictures and notes from one of the most TALENTED artists of our day. You will LOVE each and every page and find yourself reading, re-reading and RE-READING it again and again, as you see something new each time on each page. A PERFECT gift for all those who love family, friends, heart and home:-)))))

The book arrived the day before Mother's Day here in New Zealand. My husband gave it to me with my beautiful Mother's Day breakfast (in bed!) and from the minute I turned the first page, I was entranced and pulled in to a warm world full of all the good and positive things in life. Susan has a way of communicating her zest for life, reading and travel, compassion for others and love of all things to do with a warm and loving home. I love her blog too. Buy the book, it is beautiful. I can't wait for the re-print of her Autumn Book.

bought this book the moment it was available, and 1 for a friend. susan branch is one of the best, this is more a story, not like her other books with a lot of recipes. you want to travel to england today and fallow in her footsteps.

charming, compelling, especially if you have visited Britain and Martha's Vineyard. The script, drawings, and photos along with the ribbon to mark one's place make it appear more like a diary or scrapbook than a novel. Loved it completely and read it quickly, am now rereading it.

Susan Branch writes an entertaining travelogue through delightful spots in the English countryside that would appeal
to just about everyone who loves everything British. She makes you want to retrace her steps everywhere. The drawings, menus and charming stories endear you to the writer and her husband.

Every square inch of this book is an absolute delight! This is my very first Susan Branch book, and now I can't wait to read more. Do yourself a favor and buy this special book. "My Toe Huts Bett-Tee!"