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

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As a book intended for people of around nine or ten and upwards, I think it’s remarkable in the way it helps build understanding of those who may be different from us. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Then there’s Daphne, who is very pretty and nicely spoken, who continually boasts about her wealthy parents with their huge mansion and yacht. However we don’t need to have perfect bodies, or give up food we like eating, or attempt to fit in clothes we wore as teenagers.

Although Joey and her friends quickly befriend Phoebe, and they all spend time together much of the story revolves around the small children and their antics. I was looking at your Alstromeria as we have bought a few pots to grow on and we’ve enjoyed having some around. What she does not realize is that her three grandchildren need her love and help to get them through the tough times that wait for them.

Since that first novel Marcia wrote 30 more under her own name as well as a number of short stories.Recommended for children of about eight or nine and upwards who read fluently, or to be read aloud by adults. The plot is fairly minimal, which is fine - I like character-based stories, and Marcia Willett has quite a gift of characterisation.

A lot of the book involves the idea of being ‘enough’ - with no way to earn more favour, no need to compete with anyone else. 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.

Gillett books they are all lovely and the local descriptions of all the places I knew growing up was great very nostalgic. It’s night time, and they attempt to sleep; but one of the dinghies drifts and they lose sight of each other. 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. It’s poignant that one significant character has cancer; I didn’t know that Marcia Willett had it in the past, or earlier in the year. 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.