This book was given to me by my friend Audrey W. for bookcrossing. It is a paperback in good condition.
From the cover:- "Asta fled her village years ago with a secret hidden deep within her. That secret is now a feisty 16 year old-Kitty-who's keen to meet her long-lost relatives".

This isn't really my type of reading so I'm sending it off to another bookcrosser who I'm sure will be able to make use of it.

This book will soon be off in the post as a surprise RABCK to another bookcrosser.

To the finder:-
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I already have books travelling in many countries around the world-a list can be found on my bookcrossing profile.

When re-releasing this book please be aware that airports are not a good place to leave books unless they have a specific book exchange shelf or area, due to security problems, so they may well just be disposed of. Also charity shops may well discard books that have been labelled in any way and they mostly chose only the books in the very best condition
to place on their shelves and discard the rest-so another bad release option.

Christmas has come early! Thank you so much for this book (love your label by the way) & thank you so much for the choccie & wine gums (*mmmmm*)

I'll save them all till July..haha..who am I kidding the wine gums will be lucky to last 24 hours.......

I like this style of book but I do have to be in the right frame of mind for it & I wasn't sure that I was. However, I wanted to read it before moving it on as part of the "Christmas in July" Challenge - & I'm glad I did!

If you get down to the nitty gritty then it follows the format of so many other Christmassy-feelgood-chicklit-heatwarmers: in short, black sheep of the family returns home , & although not looking for love, finds it (oops....is that a spoiler! Well no - after all, how many of this genre end badly?) In this case, the black sheep is Asta, "forced" into returning home on a work mission to investigate the local church's weeping statue. Asta is convinced the new priest (who is young & gorgeous surprise, surprise) is behind this miracle & sets out to prove it.

The characters are just what you'd expect: Asta is a single parent, her daughter is desperate to meet her dad, there's the romantic interest who of course is hiding a secret (but what is it?), there's the flighty friend, there's the crusty spinster aunt (who I found to be a comic delight when a different side of her was shown) & so on.........but they seemed to have more about them than the usual stereotypes which in turn took the story up a notch. I found it really enjoyable, warm & entertaining & more to the point I didn't find it mawkishly sentimental or twee which, for me, gave it an edge over others of it's ilk.

Yes, it was fairly predictable but in a way isn't that what we expect/want from this genre? And after all an unhappy ending at Christmas just isn't on!

Left in the bird hide....which on reflection was probably not a good move. It's an open hide & now, two hours later, the rain is lashing down & a raging gale is blowing. Oh the delights of a Scottish summer.....

Released as part of the 2018 CHRISTMAS IN JULY Challenge (#34)





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