Christmas at the Keep: A moving and uplifting festive novella to escape with at Christmas

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Marcia Willett became a published author in 1995 with Thea’s Parrot (aka A Friend of the Family in the USA). She weaves a good plot, too, and while this isn’t exactly crime fiction, or a mystery, or even a ghost story, I would perhaps categorise it as a gothic romance, albeit in a rather mild forum. I had not heard of Fredrik Backman, although I gather he’s written some bestselling novels, one of which is soon to be released as a film. Some liked the fact that there were some lessons for life found in the book to go along with the interesting story being told here. There are abrupt changes in perspective and timeline that jarred me out of the story too often, and the characters and plot were just kind of boring after a while.

Time, I decided (as happens most years) to find a few childhood favourites: shortish books that I can read in just an hour or two, without any undue mental strain. I started out with the best of intentions, but sometimes I forgot… but, as I’d written on the dates, it was easy to ‘catch up’ by reading an extra one.There’s quite a large cast, with ten children (including Joey’s niece Sybil) as well as the four mothers, Phoebe and Debby, and a few doctors too, including Joey’s husband.

With a delicious seaside setting and mostly likeable characters (with the exception of the deviously manipulative Catriona and the odious Annabelle), this fun women’s f Christmas in Cornwall is a wonderful book full of real people with all of the good and not as good in them. Lovely to continue reading about the Chadwick’s, your writing takes us to the Keep, and I feel like I know it so well.These walls are bright with flowers: valerian, feverfew, mallows, lace cap hydrangeas spring from the crevices in these stones and flourish in the salty air. I love all Marcia Willett books and have just been re reading The Christmas Angel for about the fourth time. Inspector Hemingway has a sense of the ridiculous and a great deal of insight, and gets considerably more information from everyone - including the household staff - by his friendliness and sympathetic attitude. But we should do it because we know it’s right, and because it helps other people and spreads God’s love. So I looked at the shelf where we keep books and booklets with short devotional passages or comments, intended to be read over the course of a month or a year.