🎅 Fabulously Festive ~ Jo at Jaffareadstoo 🎅

Here's the fabulous, Jo at Jaffareadstoo

🎅What’s your earliest Christmas Memory?

I remember Christmas 1963, when I received my much longed for Sindy Doll. She was the one wearing blue jeans and a stripey top. My dad made a Sindy wardrobe and my mum had put a couple of outfits in it. I think one of the outfits was 'City Girl' which came with a little dog, and 'Shopping in the Rain' which was a raincoat and hood made from Black PVC!

I also remember the same Christmas my brothers got the Beatles LP With the Beatles and the songs All my Lovin' and Please Mister Postman remind me of that Christmas.

🎅Do you have any special Christmas Traditions?

I always have a nativity crib with figures that have been in the family for well over 60 years.

Baby Jesus never goes into the crib until he is born on Christmas Day!

I have the three kings traversing around the house for the whole of December until Epiphany when they reach the crib. You never know where the kings will show up.....

🎅What’s your favourite festive carol or song?

Silent Night. 

I remember listening to someone sing Stille Nacht, heilige nacht one Christmas morning in the Hospice where I was the nurse in charge...it was magical.

Adeste Fidelis  reminds me of Midnight Mass with my parents.

And John Lennon’s Happy Xmas ( War is Over ) reminds me of a school disco, Christmas 1971.

🎅Do you have a favourite festive film?

The Snowman as it reminds me of when my children were tiny and so excited that Christmas was finally here. They would both sit still for half an hour whilst this was on the TV.

What’s your favourite festive read ?

It's always got to be Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Although my Christmas treat this year is to read Miss Marley by Vanessa Lafaye, who very sadly passed away earlier this year.

🎅Are you organised or do you leave everything until the last minute ?

Mainly organised, although I can keep shopping until the very last minute !

I do try to get Christmas cards written early and tend to buy Christmas presents as I see them from about mid-October time.

🎅Christmas Tree – real or artificial?

A good artificial tree works for us. I've always had cats who like to swing from tree branches, scattering glittery baubles, so having had more than one tree pulled over by a curious kitty it’s so much easier to have something that’s not going to shed pine needles everywhere should it topple over!

I have just a couple of these rather fragile baubles left which I bought in Leeds in 1980, for our first Christmas tree as a married couple.

🎅Tinsel or Glitter?

Tinsel rather than glitter but I really prefer stranded beads or ribbons on the tree which I think look pretty. 

I dislike the feeling of glitter on my hands and so avoid it wherever possible.


🎅Christmas Cracker of Party Poppers

Christmas Crackers every time. I love the terrible jokes, cheap plastic contents and colourful party hats that are either too big or too small !

🎅Mince Pie or Yule Log?

A little bit of both works for us. Warm mince pie or Christmas Pudding and a dollop of ice-cream for me but it’s always Yule Log for the family and we have to test several recipes before we get to the one that’s chosen for the ‘big’ day !

🎅Christmas Dinner – Traditional Turkey, Nut Roast Veggie or something Different?

Always traditional turkey, sourced locally and cooked to perfection by my husband. Although this year we're going to shake it up a bit and have a Christmas buffet rather than having a sit around the table roast dinner. There won't be sprouts this year !

🎅Christmas Tipple – Bucks Fizz/Mulled Wine or something stronger?

I'm a non-drinker so, whilst I may have a tiny Buck's Fizz during present opening, the rest of the day it's elder flower pressé, or a nice cup of my favourite Darjeeling tea 😊

I'm not a great fan of mulled wine - it always tastes medicinal.

🎅A fun game of after dinner charades or more chocolates and the television?

It's got to be a good book, or whatever drama is on the television.

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Wherever you are in the world and whoever you share it with, Jaffa, Timmy and I wish you the 
Happiest of Christmases

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🎄 Fabulously Festive with Patricia Furstenberg 🎄

In the run up to Christmas, I have wonderful author interviews to help get you into the festive spirit

Here's the fabulous, Patricia Furstenberg

A very festive welcome to you, Patricia and thank you for spending time with us today

🎄What’s your earliest Christmas Memory? 

Lighting up the candles in the Christmas tree and singing carols with my parents, feeling so peaceful and secure. The tree looked soooo tall! 

🎄Do you have any special Christmas Traditions? 

We bake cookies (Santa loves handmade cookies!) and sing carols by the tree. We always open the presents on the Christmas morning! 

🎄What’s your favourite festive carol or song? 

“We Wish You a Merry Christmas” and “O Brad Frumos” (the Romanian version of “O Tannenbaum”) 

🎄Do you have a favourite festive film? 

“Love, Actually” but as a family we still enjoy “Home Alone” 

🎄What’s your favourite festive read? 

Agatha Christie’s “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” 

🎄Are you organised or do you leave everything until the last minute? 

We start early; tree is up at the beginning of December, menu sorted, but I do tend to end up out of breath on a last minute gift shopping! 

🎄Christmas tree – real or artificial? 

Christmas time is summer time in the southern hemisphere so we have a few J artificial trees. When we’re lucky enough to celebrate Christmas in Romania, buying a real tree at the market is such a joy! 

🎄Tinsel or Glitter? 

 Tinsel! 

🎄Christmas cracker or party popper? 

Christmas cracker. 

🎄Mince Pie or Yule Log? 

Mince Pies, yum! 

🎄Christmas Dinner – Traditional Turkey, Nut Roast Veggie or something a bit different?

The South African tradition asks for a “braai” – that’s a barbeque. I add a few Romanian dishes: boeuf salad, eggplant salad, sweet bread baked with nuts and Turkish delight. The Romanian tradition would ask for lots of meats, especially mince with rice and herbs cooked in cabbage leafs and pickles. 

🎄Christmas Tipple – Bucks Fizz, Mulled Wine... or something stronger? 

A cold apple cider beer, please, if I’m to celebrate Christmas at 30 degrees C. Otherwise mulled wine 😊 

🎄A fun game of after dinner charades or more chocolates and the television? 

As a family we do enjoy a board game and singing carols by the Christmas tree. Always leaving milk and cookies for Santa!

About the Author

With a medical degree behind her, Patricia is passionate about mind, brain, education and the psychology behind it. Using her knowledge she crafts stories and poems that are great fun, as well as teaching empathy. What fuels her is her fascination for writing and… coffee.

She is the author of the beloved Joyful Trouble, The Cheetah and the Dog, Puppy, 12 Months of Rhymes and Smiles and many more, all available through Amazon. She has personal work and educational articles published on Huffington Post SA, MyPuppyClub.net and ITSI_SA. She blogs extensively at http://alluringcreations.co.za/wp/

She now works on a novel about the lives of military working dogs in Afghanistan as well as three more poetry books about Africa’s bravest creatures. Patricia lives with her husband, children and their dogs in sunny South Africa.

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🎄 Fabulously Festive with Catherine Tinley 🎄

In the run up to Christmas, I have wonderful author interviews to help get you into the festive spirit

Here's the fabulous, Catherine Tinley

A warm festive welcome, Catherine and thank you so much for being our guest today

🎅What’s your earliest Christmas Memory?

Getting a doll called Wanda. She was supposed to walk when you touched her with a wand but never really worked.

🎅Do you have any special Christmas Traditions?

Yes, lots! Our Christmas starts on Christmas Eve in the afternoon, when the whole family goes for a walk at a local beauty spot, the Fairy Glen. There are almost thirty of us now – my parents, brothers, sisters, their husbands and wives, and all the grandchildren. We meet again that evening at Christmas Eve Mass, then on Christmas morning we all go to my parents’ house for gift swapping and bacon sandwiches. We all cook dinner in our own houses though.

🎅What’s your favourite festive carol or song?

O Holy Night. It gives me goosebumps.

Do you have a favourite festive film?

I do like the Santa Clause trilogy. And It’s a Wonderful Life. And Scrooged. And – I seem to like lots of them!

🎅What’s your favourite festive read?

I like finding new romances set at Christmas, so I’ll be indulging in a few of those over the holidays.

🎅Are you organised or do you leave everything until the last minute?

A bit of both. I’m generally fairly well organised, but there are always those last minute extras, aren’t there?

🎅Christmas tree – real or artificial?

Both! We have an artificial tree that we put up in our front room every year, but we always get a real tree for the sitting room. I love the real tree.

🎅Tinsel or Glitter?

Tinsel, definitely. I drape it over picture frames as well as on the trees.

🎅Christmas cracker or party popper?

Crackers. Every year we have them on the table on both Christmas Day and St Stephen’s Day.

🎅Mince Pie or Yule Log?

Yule Log – definitely! I’m not a fan of dried fruit, so no pudding, Christmas Cake, or mince pies for me. I love chocolate, so we always get a Yule Log. But my favourite traditional Christmas dessert is trifle and custard.

🎅Christmas Dinner – Traditional Turkey, Nut Roast Veggie or something a bit different?

Turkey and ham is the tradition in Ireland. We have it with sage & onion stuffing, cocktail sausages, at least three types of potato (creamed, roast, garlic), and lots of vegetables.

🎅Christmas Tipple – Bucks Fizz/Mulled Wine or something stronger?

Whatever’s going, really!

🎅A fun game of after dinner charades or more chocolates and the television?

Both. We do play games as a family, and eat lots of chocolate. We also have a food-coma nap at various points. In terms of TV, we watch the Dr Who and Call the Midwife Christmas specials, but not much else.

About the Author

Catherine Tinley writes heartwarming Regency love stories for Harlequin Mills & Boon. She has loved reading and writing since childhood, and has a particular fondness for love, romance, and happy endings. After a career encompassing speech & language therapy, NHS management, maternity campaigning and being President of a charity, she now works in Sure Start. She lives in Ireland with her husband, children, cat, and dog.

Catherine's novel The Makings of a Lady is out now and The Earl's Runaway Governess is due out in March 2019.

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🎄 Fabulously Festive with Sue Moorcroft 🎄

In the run up to Christmas, I have wonderful author interviews to help get you into the festive spirit

Here's the fabulous, Sue Moorcroft

A very festive welcome to you, Sue and thank you for spending this special time with Jaffareadstoo

🎄What’s your earliest Christmas Memory? 

I think I must have been four. We were living in Hampshire as we were an army family and my dad was stationed at Aldershot at the time. We were living out-of-barracks though, in a village called Cove. It’s the first memory I have of coming downstairs with my big brothers and finding all our presents waiting. I had a yellow doll’s cot as my main present, with a bride doll. Mum had sewn bedclothes for the cot (cotclothes?), which was an act of love because she hated sewing. That doll was about the only one I remember having. I was more into robots and teddy bears. Dolls didn’t do anything and weren’t comfy to hug in bed. 

🎄Do you have any special Christmas Traditions? 

Boxing Day with the in-laws. Moorcroft family lunch between Christmas and New Year so that everyone can come, even if they live several hours away. It gets noisy! 

🎅What’s your favourite festive carol or song? 

Wizzard’s ‘I wish it could be Christmas every day’. It reminds me of my teen years. 

🎅Do you have a favourite festive film? 

They’re not Christmas films but the Christmas break often sees members of my family binging on ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies. 

🎅What’s your favourite festive read? 

‘Snow in Covent Garden’ by Jules Wake. It came out last year and I loved it. 

🎅Are you organised or do you leave everything until the last minute? 

Organised, but grudgingly. I look for the easy way of doing everything - shopping, wrapping, cooking … Having Christmas books out makes the run-up to Christmas a lot of fun but it distracts me. 

🎅Christmas tree – real or artificial? 

Artificial, but one of those that looks fairly real and the lights have to be white, not different colours. 

🎅Tinsel or Glitter? 

Both! Why not? 

🎅Christmas cracker or party popper? 

Cracker. The mottos and jokes can be entertaining. I don’t like the hats though. 

🎅Mince Pie or Yule Log? 

Yule log. Until such time as I find there are chocolate mince pies, anyway. 

🎅Christmas Dinner – Traditional Turkey, Nut Roast Veggie or something a bit different? 

Traditional roast but not turkey. Usually lamb or beef. 

🎅Christmas Tipple – Bucks Fizz/Mulled Wine or something stronger? 

Champagne! That doesn’t mean I get it. I just like it. 

🎅A fun game of after dinner charades or more chocolates and the television? 

Reading’s more likely than TV, actually … but chocolates are very welcome.

About the Author

Sue Moorcroft writes ward winning contemporary fiction of life and love. She also writes short stories, serial, articles, columns, courses and writing 'howto'.

Avon Books
October 2018

Georgine loves Christmas. The festive season always brings the little village of Middledip to life. But since her ex-boyfriend walked out, leaving her with crippling debts, Georgine’s struggled to make ends meet.

To keep her mind off her worries, she throws herself into organising the Christmas show at the local school. And when handsome Joe Blackthorn becomes her assistant, Georgine’s grateful for the help. But there’s something about Joe she can’t quite put her finger on. Could there be more to him than meets the eye?

Georgine’s past is going to catch up with her in ways she never expected. But can the help of friends new and old make this a Christmas to remember after all?

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🎅 Happy Christmas 😊

🎄 Fabulously Festive with Anna Belfrage 🎄

In the run up to Christmas, I have wonderful author interviews to help get you into the festive spirit

Here's the fabulous, Anna Belfrage

Anna, thank you so much for being our guest on the blog today 

🎅What’s your earliest Christmas Memory?

We were living in Peru. It was hot. I was about four or so and my mother asked me to fetch the garden hose in the garage so that she could fill up my new inflatable pool, my favourite Christmas gift that year. I rushed into the garage and grabbed the hose. When I turned, I noticed that the heavy drain lid was hovering a metre or so above the floor. Below the drain lid was a huge snake. I screamed. And screamed. Screamed some more. My mother burst through the door and ran over to where I was standing. 

“What’s wrong?” she asked, hands flying over my body. I pointed. My mother turned. She screamed. I screamed. We screamed some more. Totally futile behaviour, but I was very young and my mother suffered from serious snake phobia. We’d have been standing there still had not my father come running to save us both.

🎅Do you have any special Christmas Traditions?

We celebrate Christmas the Swedish way, which means we do our main celebration on Christmas Eve. In our family, the day starts well before eight. I get up and tip-toe out into the kitchen. Hubby appears a minute or so later. In silence, we prepare hot chocolate, heap plates with warm saffron buns, with home-made ginger biscuits. 

Hubby lights the fire in the tiled stove. We flit about lighting candles all over. Steaming mugs of hot chocolate topped with whipped cream are set down on the table. And then, when everything is ready we crank up the Christmas music on max volume. Some moments later, they appear: with sleep-encrusted eyes, imprints of their pillows on their faces and hair standing more or less on end, our four children come down the stairs. (Said children are now adults, albeit young adults) We hug them and wish them a Happy Christmas. They hug us back and rush over to check what’s in their stocking. For a little moment, time hangs suspended and I see them as they used to be, small and cuddly and dressed in matching pyjamas. Now they have long, hairy legs (bar the daughter, obviously. She waxes) would rather die than wear a pyjamas, but they are still very cuddly. At least on Christmas Eve.

🎅What’s your favourite festive carol or song?

Oh, Come all Ye Faithful.

🎅Do you have a favourite festive film?

Not really. But I always watch Sound of Music at least once during the holidays.

🎅What’s your favourite festive read?

A Swedish poem called “Tomten”. And Luke 2:1 and onwards. “And it came to pass…” 

🎅Are you organised or do you leave everything until the last minute?

Very, very organised. 

🎅Christmas tree – real or artificial?

Real.

🎅Tinsel or Glitter?

Glitter

🎅Christmas cracker or party popper?

Christmas cracker

🎅Mince Pie or Yule Log?

Neither. For me, it is Swedish saffron buns. 

🎅Christmas Dinner – Traditional Turkey, Nut Roast Veggie or something a bit different?

We eat filet of beef with mushroom & cognac sauce, roasted potatoes and a huge salad. The alternative would be a Swedish Christmas smorgasbord, but the family has nixed that. Personally, I am relieved: preparing a smorgasbord takes days and days, what with various types of herring, salmon, lutefish, ham, pig trotters, meatballs, ribs, pates, cheeses, sausages, smoked meats, rice porridge (very important), dried fruits and like fifteen other things I’ve forgotten. 

🎅Christmas Tipple – Bucks Fizz/Mulled Wine or something stronger?

Err…water and tea, please.

🎅A fun game of after dinner charades or more chocolates and the television?

Chocolates and telly. By the time we get that far, I’m exhausted! 

About the Author

Had Anna been allowed to choose, she’d have become a time-traveller. As this was impossible, she became a financial professional with three absorbing interests: history, romance and writing. Anna has authored the acclaimed time travelling series The Graham Saga, set in 17th century Scotland and Maryland, as well as the equally acclaimed medieval series The King’s Greatest Enemy which is set in 14th century England. She has recently released the first in a new series, The Wanderer. This time, she steps out of her normal historical context and A Torch in His Heart is with a fast-paced contemporary romantic suspense with paranormal and time-slip ingredients. She has loved writing it – she hopes her readers will like reading it just as much. 

 

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🎄Happy Christmas 😊

🎄 Fabulously Festive with Amanda Prowse 🎄

In the run up to Christmas, I have wonderful author interviews to help get you into the festive spirit

Here's the fabulous, Amanda Prowse

A very festive welcome to you,  Amanda and thank you for spending this special time with Jaffareadstoo

🎄What’s your earliest Christmas Memory? 

It is when I realised Santa was real because I wanted a particular make, type and colour of doll’s pram from the toy shop. I don’t remember telling anyone about it, so when, on Christmas morning I pulled off the wrapping paper and this magnificent toy pram was there, it confirmed to me that he was real. Not only did I have the pram, but it confirmed beyond any doubt that he was REAL! It was an amazing moment!

🎄Do you have any special Christmas Traditions? 

Apart from the usual, like leaving out a mince pie, glass of milk and carrot for Rudolf, every Christmas Eve, I sit alone in front of the Christmas Tree before I go to sleep and I say ‘Thank you’ for every single day that I’ve had since the last Christmas Eve and I put thanks out into the universe for all the wonderful things I have in my life and the reason I do it is because I’ve done it for the last twenty years when my son was a tiny baby and I was closing up the house and switching it off in preparation for Christmas Day and I had this overwhelming feeling of missing all the people that were no longer with me and the Christmas tree felt like a magical presence in the corner of the room. It always does.

🎄What’s your favourite festive carol or song? 

Easy, ‘Hark the Herald Angels’ – it’s a proper belter and I sing it better after fourteen egg-nogs or a few sherries!

🎄Do you have a favourite festive film? 

Yes, Elf! It doesn’t matter how many times I see it and even though I know the funny bits are coming, I still howl with laughter. ‘Santa!! I know him!!’.

🎄What’s your favourite festive read? 

Any good Christmas yarn, I’m a sucker for anything with the word Christmas in the title. My absolute favourite is the Dickens classic, ‘A Christmas Carol’, I had it read to me as a child and as a grown up, take great pleasure in reading it myself. Much of the imagery in this book sits behind my eyelids when I have to think of Christmas.

🎄Are you organised or do you leave everything until the last minute? 

A little bit of both – gifts, presents and house decorations, I start planning in May (I’m not even joking). But the food, where people are sleeping and do we have enough chairs around the table are the sorts of things I start pondering about around an hour before everyone arrives!

🎄Christmas tree – real or artificial? 

Real but for the past six years, it has been in a pot, grown from a twig that my nephew planted which rooted! We’ve moved to our forever house this year so we’re going to plant it in the garden and admire it there all year round.

🎄Tinsel or Glitter? Glitter

🎄Christmas cracker or party popper? Both!

🎄Mince Pie or Yule Log? Neither!

🎄Christmas Dinner – Traditional Turkey, Nut Roast Veggie or something a bit different? 

Ha ha, I’m a veggie so I have everything that a meat eater has apart from the turkey, so a huge plate of spuds and roasted veg!

🎄Christmas Tipple – Bucks Fizz/Mulled Wine or something stronger? 

I’m a real lightweight and hardly drink but I might have some Bucks Fizz or a glass of wine. I may even go crazy and have a small port!

🎄A fun game of after dinner charades or more chocolates and the television? 

I love family games and charades. We host the wider family so there is a great range of ages around and always something happening that will make us all laugh. 

Happy Christmas everyone! Much love, Amanda xx

About the Author

Amanda Prowse is one of the UK's most prolific and loved story tellers with global sales of 6 million copies and legions of loyal fans. Based near Bristol, Amanda is the author of 25 novels and novellas, with books sold in 22 countries and translated into 12 languages - no mean feat when you consider her first novel was only published in 2012.

Lake Union
11 December 2018 (ebook)
Out in paperback 20 December 2018

Rae-Valentine and Howard were childhood sweethearts. They’ve shared twenty-five peaceful years since they were brought together by Dolly, Howard’s larger-than-life sister. But now, on the night of their wedding anniversary, Howard reveals a shocking betrayal that leaves Rae reeling.

Heartbroken, she takes Dolly on her would-be anniversary trip to Antigua and the two women drink and dance and talk like they haven’t in years. But in the break from real life, Rae realises her choices have always been made for her, and suddenly she’s questioning not only her fragile marriage but also her one-sided friendships. Is she really the pushover everyone else sees?

When Howard comes looking for reconciliation, Rae has a choice to make: keep the peace, as she always has, or put herself first for once and find out who she really is.

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🎄Happy Christmas 😊

🎄 Fabulously Festive with Nicola Pryce 🎄

In the run up to Christmas, I have wonderful author interviews to help get you into the festive spirit

Here's the fabulous, Nicola Pryce

A very festive welcome to you, Nicola and thank you for spending this special time with Jaffareadstoo

🎅What’s your earliest Christmas memory?

I must have been about six. We lived in Baghdad since I was two months old, and I remember my mother showing me a Christmas card of a snowy church with robins and snowmen. It seemed so strange and I could hardly grasp the concept.

🎅Do you have any special Christmas Traditions?

Absolutely. The stockings must be hung up, the reindeer must have a carrot and Santa must have his sherry and mince pie. 

Then my husband reads the Night Before Christmas from the same book in 35 years and the kids all join in with the reindeers' names. I think they crib it moments before because they know them all and I never get them right!

🎅What’s your favourite festive carol or song?

It used to be Once in Royal David’s City but I’m afraid it’s now Driving Home For Christmas. The kids (they’re in their 30’s) text me to say they’re on their way and I get very excited.

🎅Do you have a favourite festive film?

Definitely The Snowman. I adore it and it always brings tears to my eyes.

🎅What’s your favourite festive read?

A passage in Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee – page 110 of my old school copy! It struck me when I first read it as particularly poignant, and I think of it every year. It’s the bit when the boys in the village go carol singing and they come to the final farm. They’ve been messing about until then, but right at the end they feel the real spirit of Christmas … And 2,000 Christmases became real to us then … It’s such a moving passage.

🎅Are you organised or do you leave everything until the last minute?

Organised to the extreme. Barely able to walk, but every thing’s ready by Christmas Eve.

🎅Christmas tree – real or artificial?

A big, branchy, sustainable, real tree, grown and cut by our local farmer and crammed into our car with no hope of shutting the boot. We have low ceilings in our house and the poor fairy spends most of Christmas with a crick in her neck.

🎅Tinsel or Glitter? 

Tinsel. Long strands of shiny gold tinsel hung on the tree. It’s the same tinsel I had as a child and every year there’s a little less of it. 

🎅Christmas cracker or party popper? 

Crackers – especially Bingo crackers; if I can get away with them again this year.

🎅Mince Pie or Yule Log? 

Both, I’m afraid Jo. There’s a chocolate log for those who don’t eat Christmas pudding and a plate of mince pies just in case anyone’s still hungry. 

Christmas Dinner – Traditional Turkey, Nut Roast Veggie or something a bit different? 

We’re very traditional … a local, organic turkey from the farm opposite, and a nut roast for the veggies in my family. There’d be a riot if I suggested something a bit different! 

🎅Christmas Tipple – Bucks Fizz, Mulled Wine … or something stronger? 

I’ve learnt to go easy on the before-lunch prosecco or else we’re faced with lumpy gravy. Definitely mulled wine on Boxing Day though – together with a good fridge raid and a collapse by the fire. 

🎅A fun game of after dinner charades or some chocolates and the television? 

Back in the day, we’d be all set for charades and party games but now, well, we’ll be lucky if we make it through lunch. It will be more like … ‘Grandad, come quickly. There’s snow on the line. Thomas is in trouble… he needs our help.’

Thank you so much, Jo, for inviting me to share my Christmas with you. I hope you have a very happy and relaxing Christmas. Don’t work too hard!

About the Author

Nicola Pryce trained as a chemotherapy nurse before completing an Open University degree in Humanities. She is a qualified adult literacy support volunteer and lives with her husband in the Blackdown Hills in Somerset. Together they sail the south coast of Cornwall in search of adventure.

Corvus
2018

Cornwall, 1796.

Seamstress Elowyn Liddicot's family believe they've secured the perfect future for her, in the arms of Nathan Cardew. But then one evening, Elowyn helps to rescue a dying man from the sea, and everything changes. William Cotterell, wild and self-assured, refuses to leave her thoughts or her side - but surely she can't love someone so unlike herself.

With Elowyn's dressmaking business suddenly under threat, her family's pressure to marry Nathan increasing, and her heart decidedly at odds with her head, Elowyn doesn't know who to trust any more. And when William uncovers a sinister conspiracy that affects her whole world, can Elowyn find the courage to support the people she loves in the face of all opposition? 

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🎅 Happy Christmas 😊