Caroline Akrill: Christmas with the Rushbrokes (paperback) SECOND

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This book is a second - it was printed with black and white illustrations which we later changed for colour. It's other wise in excellent, unread condition.

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Originally published as The Last Baronet, Caroline Akrill's first book for adults lives again, this time in a special edition with new colour chapter decorations.

What could be more enticing than a traditional Christmas house party at a beautiful baronial hall in deepest Suffolk?

Prospective guests may dream of giant log fires, squashy leather chairs, fine dining, twinkling candles and the chink of decanters, but will the transformation of a crumbling ancestral pile into country house hotel be completed in time (if indeed at all) given the emotional and financial turmoil that has accompanied the renovations?

And how can the guests possibly know, having organized their festive holiday for their own personal reasons – some sad, some desperate, some hilarious and some plain murderous – that their lives will be changed forever by the experience?

Publisher Jane Badger's reaction when she first read the book in 2016:

I absolutely loved this book. It made me laugh. It made me cry. I loved the mixture of sweariness mixed with quotations from the King James version of the Bible (Sir Vivian is a fan). I loved the fact that although there is romance, it doesn’t (thank the Lord) follow the traditional romance plot. I loved the dark comedy of it all; the brilliance of the dialogue and the sharpness of the characterisation.

Set in the 1980s, when hunting was legal, this book includes hunting scenes.