If you like Hallmark movies or are a fan of HGTV, you'll enjoy Tumbledown Manor. Lisa Trumperton has left her chic life in New York and her philandering husband behind to move back to her native Australia to stay with her sister Maxine. When she discovers that her great-grandfather's dilapidated manor house is for sale, she decides to consolidate her resources and restore Trumperton Manor to some semblance of it's former glory. Alternately hilarious and heartwarming (and sometimes both at once), Lisa's journey to independence is a delightful story. With the aid of quirky local handymen (the Gray Army) and various new friends, including hunky Scott Green, the landscape designer, Lisa is able to transform the rundown house into a home despite various catastrophes (flood, fire, skepticism) she encounters along the way.
Lisa is a writer and a breast cancer survivor and her two grown children who have their own issues. Daughter Portia, who lives in California, seems to be anorexic, and son Ted, who lives in Australia, is gay. Ex-husband Jake, whose affair was discovered when Lisa accidentally discovers that her beautiful birthday flowers were actually purchased for Jake's mistress, is just a jerk. Will Lisa accept Jake's apology? Will her children find their own paths to happiness? Will Lisa and Scott forma lasting bond? Read it and find out! I enjoyed it from start to finish.
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