Rebecca Boxall > Quotes

“She heaved her bags along the platform and bypassed the ticket office, taking the side gate towards the main road.”
― Rebecca Boxall, Christmas at the Vicarage

“husband,”
― Rebecca Boxall, The Christmas Forest

“It was the thick of winter when Serena and Will moved into the Vicarage. A cold, damp day in February. The electricity wasn’t working and as they moved carefully around the enormous old house, trying to locate the trip switch, Serena thought she’d never felt as cold in her life.”
― Rebecca Boxall, Home for Winter

“Garfield were tasked with disentangling and arranging the fairy lights on the tree and, as she had requested, Rosamunde was granted the honour of placing the charmingly”
― Rebecca Boxall, Christmas at the Vicarage

“doing? Was it agony?’ ‘Horrendous. I had no idea these things go on for so long either. They were talking about an epidural when I left, so she might get a bit of rest before the pushing bit starts. Goodness, it made me very glad to be a man.’ ‘You’ll think I’m mad but, even though it sounds awful, I’d still have loved to experience it.’ Will put his arms out and embraced her. ‘I know,’ he said into her hair. Serena took a deep breath and looked up at him. ‘You look exhausted,’ she said. ‘Why don’t you go and have a bath and a nap and we’ll do Winnie’s presents just before lunch?’ ‘That sounds like heaven. I’ll go and”
― Rebecca Boxall, Home for Winter

“Thatchley was so quaint it was the kind of place used by the BBC when it required a suitably old-fashioned station for a period drama.”
― Rebecca Boxall, Christmas at the Vicarage

“fact she’d just put on a bit of weight. Stella had been absolutely incensed and ended up making the woman stand up in the middle of the canteen to admit she’d made the”
― Rebecca Boxall, Christmas on the Coast