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Anne Perry
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Pages: 176 (Paperback)
ISBN: 075532725X
Pub: Headline
Pub date: 2006-10-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 85839
Reader Reviews:
A disappointment (2/2 people found this helpful)
Reading this in December, I was hoping for a taste of Christmas past, unfortunately I just found it a bit sappy and moralistic.
The main character is a miserable old grandmother who's greatest pleasure is making life hard for other people, emanating negativity wherever she goes.
When her granddaughter informs her that they are away for Christmas and other arrangements have been made for her she reacts with typical anger and offense.
Then the expected 'worst Christmas of my life' turns out to be both interesting and emotional and Mariah Ellison suddenly develops a whole new positive outlook on life.
More of an old fashioned fairy tale really, where good triumphs over bad, but certainly not riveting or page-turning.
This is a book that may well appeal to fans of Anne Perry's Pitt detective series, where Mrs Ellison is a well known figure, but as a read-alone I found it lacking.
Another Christmas Treat from Anne Perry (3/3 people found this helpful)
I very much enjoyed this book, much more than A Christmas Visitor which had a much heavier feel than A Christmas Guest. Anyone who has "met" Thomas and Charlotte Pitt in Anne Perry's Pitt series will have encountered Charlotte's bad-tempered and judgemental Grandmother before. In this story, Grandmother finds herself following in her granddaughter's footsteps and searching for the truth. Grandmother's irascible nature hides some painful and shameful secrets of her own, revealed in a previous book, and in this story she undergoes something of a catharsis, and by trying to "help" the dead woman and her relatives, finds new possibilities for her own future dealings with others that may lead to a better chance of happiness. Sorry if this seems garbled. Read the book and you'll see what I mean.
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