“This was yet another brilliantly written, hilarious, amazing book by Charlotte Fallowfield.” – Gothic Angel Book ReviewsA laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from Charlotte Fallowfield, Amazon bestselling author of Until We Collide, Never The Bride, and The Great Escape.Despite being a successful author of risqué romance novels, Charlie Faulkner had yet to star in her own love story. Drowning her … own love story. Drowning her sorrows in takeaway pizza, and at risk of getting wedged in her favourite writing chair, she despaired of ever finding the kind of all-consuming love that she wrote about in her books.
When she did venture out of her writing cave, chaos and disaster followed, with many a trip to the emergency room of the local hospital. It was there she fell head over heels for the handsome doctor who often treated her, Guy Fitton. The trouble was that with her medical track record, she wasn’t sure if he’d see her as a sexy, desirable temptress or just a crazy, accident-prone woman, with a medical file so heavy it needed its own trolley.
Would Charlie get her “happy ever after” with Dr. Fitton or end up with the other significant male in her life, the pizza delivery guy?
While The Best Medicine is a standalone story, it’s the third in the Dilbury Village series of romantic comedy novels. All of them are set in the quaint ficticious English hamlet in the Shropshire countryside, but feature a different village couples’ story.
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Favorite Quotes:
So, how do you write such realistic and steamy sex scenes? I started one of your books as soon as I heard you’d moved in, and I have to say, that first steamy scene, with the dirty-mouthed Frenchman, nearly necessitated a trip to accident and emergency for the fitting of a pacemaker. I haven’t had such a vivid and exciting dream in a long time.
Don’t underestimate her… She looks like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, but underneath that sweet granny exterior she likes to portray is a sex-crazed nympho with a mouth that would make a sailor blush.
I’ve never heard of anyone getting beaver rash from jeans… Maybe your knicker elastic cut you… Take a look… don’t ask me. Muff inspections aren’t in the “things girlfriends do for each other” handbook.
We’d had a few more entertaining girls’ nights out, which had led to Andy the taxi driver refusing to accept bookings from us for our return journey. Daphne had given us the feedback, from the Dilbury rumour mill, that we were too raucous and our drunken topics of conversation had interfered with his pacemaker. She’d decided if the conversation was that spicy, she wanted to come on the next night out.
‘You’re buttering me up like a hot potato, what’s going on? Are you after some action tonight? A bit of the horizontal mumbo jumbo, as Charlie says?’ ‘Horizontal mambo,’ I giggled. ‘Though if you’re saying jumbo, is that a Freudian slip?’
My Review:
I am totally besotted with this cleverly amusing author, her irreverent humor had me barking with glee. Charlie was a smart cookie and a successful author of “salacious material,” although she had the worst of luck and was a hazard to her own health with frequent slips and uncanny injuries that required emergency trips to the hospital where she caught sight of whom she believed to be the most swoon-worthy of beautiful men, who also happened to be her trauma doctor. She was a smitten kitten, although oddly, none of her friends seemed to share her opinion and even warned her that he seemed sketchy. The premise was entertaining, the characters were beloved and endearing, and the writing was witty and crisp. The hardest part of writing this review was narrowing down my favorite quotes, as I seemed to have acquired a ream of them. I am already looking forward to the next trip to this quaint and quirky little village.
This lady writes some of the best romantic comedy I have ever read. I always look forward to her books. Book 3 does not let you down at all. It is about medical mishaps. I totally love all of the characters. This book focuses on Charlie’s mishaps and her many visits to the hospital. You will laugh all the way through this book! Looking forward to the next one.
well where exactly do i start…
Here we have the next instalment in the Dilbury village series and let me tell you it was certainly worth with the wait….
This is the story of Charlie Faulkner and unfortunate mishaps leading to several visits to A&e this is all part of her quest to get ‘Mcfitty’ to notice her …. it’s a brilliant story includes characters/events from previous book which is good as may how forgotten so it jogs memory a little. There are lots of lol moments included so I highly recommend “one clicking” it you wont be disappointed at all. Another book fantastically written by Charlotte so can’t wait for the next instalment well that’s saying there is one.
When you have a book that the main character, Charlie Faulkner, is an author of romance novels that lean toward erotic, how can it not be a great book.
Charlie has moved to the small town of Dilbury. During this book we get to meet and get to know her new neighbors. They add an extra layer of warmth and laughter to this story.
Poor Charlie is the most accident prone person I know. If it’s going to happen it’s going to happen to her. Due to her injuries she has ended up in the Accident/Emergency Room. On her very first visit she is treated by the very sexy Dr. Guy Fitton (McFitty) and is instantly consumed by throughts of this man and what her future is going to be with him.
Through many pizza deliveries Charlie gets aquainted with Kitt, the deliveryman. He has moved back home to take care of his mom, who has alzheimer’s. What I love most about Charlie’s character is that she sees beyond Kitt being a pizza deliveryman. She sees him as a person. They get to become best friend’s. I could just tell as I read a long that these two were meant to be together. Charlie is so blind to her McFitty obsession that she can’t see what is right in front of her. By the time she realizes it, it might just be too late.
I absolutely LOVE what Charlie does to McFitty when she finally realizes just what a cad he is. I was cheering!
My goal in life is to be just like Daphne when I am in my 80’s. She just added so much humor to this book. Love her character!
The Author Charlotte Fallowfield writes in British English (she does note this at the very beginning of the book) which I struggled a little bit with the terms and slang but felt right at home when Quinn comes into the story and we struggled together. I think it added some hilarity and didn’t take anything away from the story for me.
The Best Medicine is book 3 in the Dilbury Village Series. Personally I think it can be a stand alone. Previous to reading this book I have not read the other books in the series and I had no problem following along. I do however feel I would of gotten a better understanding of the other characters in the book, knew their background a little better if I had read them in order. In the epilogue I did get a little lost about who some of the characters were but I don’t think they were in past books I think they are going to be in future books. Did that irritate me….no, just making me do a count down until the next book is out.
Welcome to book 3 in the Dilbury Village series. Here we meet Charlie Faulkner and her mishaps. I never thought you could actually meet someone wirh such worse luck. How totally wrong am I.
This installment follows Charlie and her quest for Dr McFitty. luckly her continued mishaps allow her to frequently see him in A&E, even if the injuries are somewhat cringe worthy and totally embarrassing to say the least. With her sight set firmly on this man will she miss her opportunity to find the real love of her life or is Dr McFitty the real deal?
We also get to meet up with the rest of the gang from the series. What is good is the book spreads across the timeline of the other books so you get a snippet of what happened previously to jog your memory (turd gate being one of them).
I can’t wait for book 4 and Quinn’s book. thank you Charlotte for delivering another laugh out loud masterpiece.
Book 3 in the Dilbury Village Series and I didn’t realise how much I have missed the residents of this village til I started reading The Best Medicine once again Charlotte Fallowfield has another 5 Star winner on her hands. This visit is all about medical mishaps and it’s funny how we always manage to find humour in these situations but laugh I did in fact I think I snorted out loud a few times.
Charlie is the person everyone loves in Dilbury, she is kind-hearted and easy going but she is also accident prone and finds herself visiting the ER a fair few times and that’s where her infatuation with Dr McFitty starts …….but what about the Pizza man who delivers to Charlie’s house every Friday will Charlie make the right decision and choose the right man ….guess you need to read the book to find that out.
This book has it all, it’s hilarious. It’s sweet and dramatic, it’s got characters who are strong and loveable and it’s all based around a village you will fall in love with. Looking forward to meeting the next resident of Dilbury.
5 star review of The Best Medicine (Dilbury Village #3) by Charlotte Fallowfield
This is the third book in Charlotte Fallowfield’s latest series and in my opinion she has another winner on her hands. This is romance novelist Charlie Faulkner story and oh what a story it was. If I could give these books more than 5 stars then I certainly would.
I laughed so much I cried in this book; it was fabulous and I couldn’t put it down. The writing is well executed, hilarious, sweet, dramatic and honestly one of the best books I have read in a long time.Each book in this series, in my humble opinion keeps getting better and better.
Although a stand alone, I do think you would appreciate it more if you read the first two books, just to get a bit of background, however it is not necessary, just a suggestion.
What’s a girl to do when she writes naughty romance books for a living/ Charlie is looking for love but up till now it has been elusive. The only men she seems to spend time with is the pizza delivery man(Kitt) and the doctor (Guy) who fixes her up regularly as Charlie is accident prone (to put it nicely). Can one of these be the man of her dreams?
I was on the edge of my seat wondering who Charlie would end up with and since that is the “big” surprise, I won’t say more than this; I loved it.
As with the previous books the secondary characters in this book made for some cringe worthy moments at times, yet they were so likeable and I think most of us could put our own friends or relatives into the characters at times, I know I certainly could. The Best Medicine had so many laugh out loud moments that I was in danger of being thought crazy as I read this on my commute to and from work; in fact I almost got kicked out of a quiet carriage.
I haven’t read a book from Charlotte Fallowfield that I didn’t love and this is certainly one of my favourites.
I would love to take a trip and visit Dilbury Village in the Shropshire countryside and I cannot wait to read the next book in this series. Congratulations Ms. Fallowfield you have a winner on your hands.