This book was great, I loved the small country town vibe and the typical characters you would expect in a place where not a lot goes on. Except for when old Mr Pottisworth dies, then there's plenty to get tongues wagging in the town!

Isabelle's husband has left her a load of debts and nothing to pay them with. She's the quintessential musician, who lives in a very small, precious world where she plays a 300,000 violin and her children are cared for by a nanny.

She's got stacks of bills on the table, and her teenage daughter Kitty has taken the role of mother and organiser, and is doing her best to keep things afloat in London.

However there's no avoiding the mounting debts, and sitting on ones butt isn't going to solve the issue of having no money to live on.

Convenient that a very old relative left her a place out in the country then, isn't it?

However, the issue arises when the friendly next door neighbours who had looked after the crotchety old fool for years as he was "ailing" and had been expecting their kindness to be paid back tenfold in the shape of the house the old man owned. They were more than a little out of joint when the ethereal Isabelle and her two "mercurial" children move into the house they had seen as theirs for years.

With strong characters that are well developed through the novel, you are easily transported to the fly on the wall in the comings and goings at the Spanish House. It can get a bit "eye rolling" at times with predictability, but it is overall a very interesting book and one that you can invest some time in to see what happens to the Spanish House.