Review by
KT Sullivan
Christmas
1926 finds Daisy Forbes getting ready to spend the holidays with her family at
Eden Hall, their country estate. Her grandmother’s snow globe is special to
her. She and her father make a wish with it every Christmas. This Christmas
will be different from all the rest because her father’s mistress has been
invited to dinner, her mother wants a lover, and old family secrets will be
revealed. Howard and Mabel, Daisy’s parents, are about to celebrate their
twenty fifth wedding anniversary, but Mabel would prefer to travel without her
husband. Iris, Daisy’s sister, smokes, wears trousers, drinks alcohol, owns her
own successful shop, and lives in London. Daisy has decided to join her sister
after her father’s affair is exposed. Daisy’s love life is a bit of a mess too.
One man kisses her, another tells her he loves her, and yet another one
proposes marriage. She’s hoping a change of scenery will put all in
prospective. The year brings about revelations about the family and staff. The
servant Daisy loves leaves town and returns as a successful writer. Will
everyone be able to forgive and accept the changes around them?
This has
an Upstairs, Downstairs feel to it because the servants’ lives intersect with
the family’s lives especially because Daisy and Stephen plan to marry. It also
brings in life after World War I. Young men died and the women still mourn. Men
returned shell shocked from their experiences. Plus the change in attitudes
about the class separation is more apparent. Nice touch of history in this
sweet story.
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About the
Author:
Judith Kinghorn was
born in Northumberland, England, and grew up in the village of Warkworth,
famed for its castle, featured in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part I and painted
by JMW Turner. She is a graduate in English and History of Art, a Fellow of The
Royal Society of Arts, and a former nominee of Woman of The Year. She lives
with her family in Hampshire, England.
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