Kate Forster Audiobooks

The Perfect Retreat: warm escapist romance from Kate Forster's Perfect series

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

3 listener ratings

Who is Kate Forster?

Escape is the promise, and the title makes no secret of it. Kate Forster’s Perfect books belong to the branch of romance that offers a change of scenery alongside the love story, and The Perfect Retreat puts the entire proposition on the cover.

Retreat fiction has its own quiet rules. Somebody leaves a life that has stopped working, arrives somewhere with better light and worse plumbing, and is remade by the place and the people in it. Done carelessly it is wallpaper. Done well, and at nearly ten hours there is time to do it well, it becomes genuinely restorative reading, which is a harder thing to write than cynics tend to allow.

What we know here is what the books show, and they are not asking to be read as anything other than pleasure.

Kate Forster in audiobooks

Rachael Tidd narrates, at a shade under ten hours: comfortable company for a long journey or a run of evenings.

Only a few ratings have been recorded, so the early score carries little statistical weight, encouraging as it looks. This is a series in which each instalment is designed to welcome a newcomer, so there is no wrong door, and The Perfect Retreat works perfectly well as a first encounter. Anyone who reads for warmth, for setting, and for the reliable pleasure of a story that intends to end well will know within twenty minutes whether they are staying. Have a look at what is gathered below.