cover image Forget Me Knot

Forget Me Knot

Sue Margolis, . . Bantam, $13 (400pp) ISBN 978-0-385-33900-1

This fluffy Brit romance lopes along at a leisurely pace and provides a pleasant journey over the rocky shoals of mismatched love, enduring loyalties and improbably happy endings. Margolis, a master of cutesy titles (Apocalipstick ), focuses on business-and-trend-savvy London florist Abby Crompton, who, true to genre form, has a gaggle of quaint acquaintances and relationship woes. She's engaged, but things with Toby aren't quite picture-perfect, and a disastrous dinner with her snooty mom-in-law-to-be leads to a flameout. Rebound Dan, a filmmaker who falls for Abby on first meet (it involves a stuck elevator and an inebriated Abby), is nearly cast aside for keeping parts of his background from the once-burned, twice-shy Abby. Dan proves far wiser than the chip-on-her-shoulder girl from Croydon. Light and quippy, Margolis's newest is perfectly agreeable. (Aug.)