Christmas with Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly

Christmas with Mr Darcy - Victoria Connelly

Victoria Connelly collects up the leading characters from her Jane Austen Addicts Series and takes them all back to Purley Hall the home of Dame Pamela and her Butler Higgins.

This year she is hosting her first Christmas Austen Convention in her grand home.

As all the usual characters turn up the snow is falling fast and some guests are more welcome than others as the black sheep of the family shows up.

Everyone is set for a sumptuous Christmas but not everything is going quite to plan from the drunken Angel who will not sit straight on top of the Christmas tree to the terrible shock that finds the air ambulance on the snowy lawns of Purley Hall, there is never a dull moment, romance and skullduggery included,

The story becomes a real country home who dunnit and I can tell you it definitely was not the Butler Higgins. You could grab this book electronically and still read it for Christmas.

While on the subjects of who dunnits, I would like to mention a book by another beloved Austen author: Mary Lydon Simonsen. A Killing in Kensington although this is not an Austen adaption it is a good detective story with plenty to keep you guessing and some really vile characters. I enjoyed it greatly especially as it was set in an area I lived in for many years.

Merry Christmas to you all.

A Weekend with Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly

A Weekend with Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly

The course of true love never does run smooth when Jane Austen makes the rules...

Lot’s of fun. Two love stories, so that’s four people, two dogs and quite a few chickens.

Dr Katherine Roberts and Robyn Love are both very likable characters.

The scholar and the Austen fan both travel from their very different homes and lives to Purley Hall for a Jane Austen Conference.

One to lecture and one to wallow in her favorite author neither lady was looking for love, they both already have enough problems in that area. But……

Of course fate has other ideas.

All the main characters and most of the secondary characters are entertaining and you want them all to have happy endings even if you are not sure it will work out that way.

Plenty of twists and turns that Miss Austen would have chuckled at I am sure.

I understand this book has already been snapped up to be made into a movie, if and when it comes out I will definately go and see it.

I grew up in Winchester in Hampshire and often visited the Cathedral and Jane Austen’s place of rest so it was nice to visit again in this story.

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