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Apples In Store: A Christmas Novella
HAPPY EVER AFTER IS HARD WORK
After the ash has settled after the events of An Imperfect Enjoyment, Thomazine Russell is looking forward to making the first Christmas of her married life a special time at Four Ashes.
Because Christmas, even in Restoration Buckinghamshire, is a time for families to be together, and Thomazine wants it to be a time of quiet happiness.
So does her father. That's why he's ridden eighty miles in the snow to deliver his wayward youngest daughter to Four Ashes.
There's little more determined than a seventeen-year-old girl with theatrical amvbitions - apart from possibly the determination of her elder sister not to have that peaceful family Christmas disrupted.
Will 1666 see the Matchless Thalia estranged from her family, or can Thomazine see that peace and goodwill extend to all men - as well as actresses?
After the ash has settled after the events of An Imperfect Enjoyment, Thomazine Russell is looking forward to making the first Christmas of her married life a special time at Four Ashes.
Because Christmas, even in Restoration Buckinghamshire, is a time for families to be together, and Thomazine wants it to be a time of quiet happiness.
So does her father. That's why he's ridden eighty miles in the snow to deliver his wayward youngest daughter to Four Ashes.
There's little more determined than a seventeen-year-old girl with theatrical amvbitions - apart from possibly the determination of her elder sister not to have that peaceful family Christmas disrupted.
Will 1666 see the Matchless Thalia estranged from her family, or can Thomazine see that peace and goodwill extend to all men - as well as actresses?
104 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 28, 2017
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M.J. Logue
25 books35 followersWriter, mad cake lady, re-enactor, historian.
Been slightly potty about the clankier side of Ironside for around 20 years, and lists amongst my heroes in this unworthy world Sir Thomas Fairfax, Elizabeth Cromwell and John Webster (for his sense of humour.)
When not purveying historically-accurate cake to various re-enactment groups across the country, M.J. Logue can usually be discovered practising in her garden with a cavalry backsword.
Been slightly potty about the clankier side of Ironside for around 20 years, and lists amongst my heroes in this unworthy world Sir Thomas Fairfax, Elizabeth Cromwell and John Webster (for his sense of humour.)
When not purveying historically-accurate cake to various re-enactment groups across the country, M.J. Logue can usually be discovered practising in her garden with a cavalry backsword.
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September 26, 2019
Gorgeous.
July 8, 2018
I have read all of M.J.Logue's 'Uncivil War' series set during the English Civil War and also 'Imperfect Enjoyment' the first book of her new series and so I know what a great writer she is. 'Apples In Store' is set following the events of 'Imperfect Season' and is a Christmas Novella.
I am pleased that the author is carrying on with stories about the lives and adventures of Russell, Luce and the Babbitt family and the story didn't disappoint. 'Apples in Store' is about Russell's first celebration of Christmas and for a grown man who had never enjoyed the Christmas celebrations before, due to his extremely strict puritanical upbringing, it is quite an eye opener for him.
I won't spoil the plot for readers, but I really enjoyed it and will read it again at a more appropriate time of the year.
I am pleased that the author is carrying on with stories about the lives and adventures of Russell, Luce and the Babbitt family and the story didn't disappoint. 'Apples in Store' is about Russell's first celebration of Christmas and for a grown man who had never enjoyed the Christmas celebrations before, due to his extremely strict puritanical upbringing, it is quite an eye opener for him.
I won't spoil the plot for readers, but I really enjoyed it and will read it again at a more appropriate time of the year.
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