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

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Mary Berry doesn’t cook her fish first, and I tried her recipe once, but it didn’t work for me, I found it better to cook the fish slightly, and the cheese sauce is lovely with the fish.

Until then, there are plenty of jobs awaiting us indoors, and when those are finished, there are books and cups of tea. His Bob Lee Swagger series took the world by storm in the 90s, and he has a new collection of novellas this month featuring Bob Lee, Earl and Charles.

In my meandering, gradual read-through of the lengthy Chalet School series by Elinor M Brent-Dyer (with a few extra fill-ins) I reached ‘Jo to the Rescue’. They’re quick to read, and on the whole I thought them encouraging, even if I really couldn’t relate to the one about the author’s childhood, expected to be a particular kind of person, and encouraged in perfectionism. I don’t know that anything in the book was new to me, and I have already forgotten quite a bit of what I read, but I thought it had some thought-provoking reminders about living in the moment, gratefulness and acceptance.

Her novels are published in many countries and have been translated into many languages as well; these books have made bestseller lists in other countries as well. Her final short novel, Christmas at the Keep, delivered when she was already ill with cancer, was published posthumously in October. I had just about worked out who was the most likely perpetrator, after being suspicious of two or three other people, but had entirely forgotten how it actually happened. 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.She has also written four books under the pseudonym " Willa Marsh", and is published in more than sixteen countries. The guesthouse is in Devon, and is a place they had previously visited so they’re interested to see the renovations, and familiar with the area nearby, so they go out in pairs to explore, wondering why the Colonel’s wife is so keen to know where they’re going all the time. He was seen so quickly after referral by our GP, seen by a dermatologist on the Saturday and the procedure done the following Friday. Christmas in Cornwall is a wonderful book full of real people with all of the good and not as good in them.