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

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There’s no explanation as to why they spent so long in the first form, or why one or two of their former classmates have already progressed to the third form. Rosamunde Pilcher is one favorite author of this genre, and I’d tried other authors said to be like her, but some of them were really not on her level.

I have just finished my 12th Marcia Willett book I am addicted to them and will download everyone of them. Marcia was also one of the guests and we would often sit together and chat about books and writing – this was soon after her first novel, Those Who Serve, was published, and at that time I was writing articles for the county magazine, Devon Life, and also reviewing books.He’s always honest, somewhat self-deprecating, well aware of his faults and foibles, and yet he knows, absolutely, that God loves him for who he is, and that there’s nothing more worth doing than walking with Jesus. Anne Lamott was around my age when she wrote this book, but evidently a great deal more active even though she mentions aches and discomforts of being not as young as she once was. It’s that time of year, nearing the end, when I realise I haven’t quite managed the 100 books I planned to read during the year.

Anecdotes and reminiscences appear alongside questions and insights that are often quite deep, even if written in apparently light-hearted ways. Along the way there are bad guys plotting to do the lovely little group of Anglican nuns out of their home. After this, they are sent to live with Frederica “Freddy” Chadwick (their grandma) who lives in Devon. It’s perhaps a bit random, consisting as it does of articles written by Brennan Manning when he was alone, with time to pray and ponder and realise, once again, who he was, and what was important.The other main characters present are Nathaniel and Joseph’s nephew and niece, Stephen and Paula, offspring of their deceased brother. Then things start going missing, so many that it’s evidently not carelessness, but someone stealing. Although sailing takes less of a role in this book than in many of the others in the series, there’s still a fair amount of nautical terminology that went right over my head - however it didn’t matter at all. Definitely recommended if you like this kind of gentle, sometimes poignant character-based women’s fiction. I knew the outcome would be positive but had forgotten how it played out, and the ending was exciting, making the book difficult to put down at times.