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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hubble bubble, toil and trouble, Casserole burn and intrigues double 'Mitzi Blessing is on the scrapheap: forced into a very early retirement, a lifetime of organising the church flower rota and making cricket teas seems to loom gloomily ahead of her. With her two daughters seemingly happily settled, Mitzi is determined not to dwindle quietly into serene old age and sets about organising and revitalising Hazy Hassocks, the small rural community she has lived in all her life. However, with the discovery of her grandmother's cookery book in the attic,life for Mitzi and her friends and family starts to get very interesting. Full of old-fashioned recipes with enchanting names like Wishes Come True Pie, Mischief Night Cake, and Powers of Persuasion Pudding - Granny's dishes provide a nourishing meal, but they also seem to have some very surprising side effects indeed.
Christina Jones
Christina Jones, the only child of a schoolteacher and a circus clown, has been writing all her life (as well as having millions of Proper Jobs) and has never stopped. She is the adored and award-winning author of 27 hilarious, heartwarming romantic comedy novels, including Going the Distance (winner of the WH Smith Fresh Talent award), Nothing to Lose (runner-up for the WH Smith Thumping Good Read award) and An Enormously English Monsoon Wedding (winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association's Reviewer's Choice Award).
As well as writing funny, feel-good novels, she has also published several short stories and collections, including the brand-new festive e-short, Christmas at Sandcastle Cottage. Her latest full-length novel, the dazzlingly delightful Summer at Sandcastle Cottage, was released in summer 2021, and she is currently working on something for next summer, too...
After years of travelling, she now lives in rural Oxfordshire with her husband and four rescue cats: Dylan, Dexter, Grace and Miss Bea.
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