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    The Little Village Christmas
    The Little Village Christmas
    The Little Village Christmas
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Little Village Christmas

    Written by Sue Moorcroft

    Narrated by Claire Fraenkel

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    ‘I love all of Sue Moorcroft’s books!’
    Katie Fforde

    The #1 bestseller returns with an irresistibly festive tale that you won’t be able to put down!

    Alexia Kennedy – interior decorator extraordinaire – has been tasked with giving the little village of Middledip the community café it’s always dreamed of.

    After months of fundraising, the villagers can’t wait to see work get started – but disaster strikes when every last penny is stolen. With Middledip up in arms at how this could have happened, Alexia feels ready to admit defeat.

    But help comes in an unlikely form when woodsman, Ben Hardaker and his rescue owl Barney, arrive on the scene. Another lost soul who’s hit rock bottom, Ben and Alexia make an unlikely partnership.

    However, they soon realise that a little sprinkling of Christmas magic might just help to bring this village – and their lives – together again…

    Readers love The Little Village Christmas…

    ‘Left me with a warm and fuzzy festive feeling’ the Bookbag

    ‘The Little Village Christmas is Sue Moorcroft at her very best, with exceptional plotting, wonderful settings and vibrant, flawed and believable characters whom I’d love to meet in real life’ Linda’s Bookbag

    ‘A beautifully written and planned out book, which should be high on your list of Christmas reading. I can’t recommend it highly enough’ Novel Kicks

    ‘Sue Moorcroft is wonderfully skilled at exploring relationships between characters and resolving issues where nothing is black and white, letting readers get to know and love even minor characters in the story’ My Weekly

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateNov 2, 2017
    ISBN9780008260033
    The Little Village Christmas
    Author

    Sue Moorcroft

    Award-winning author Sue Moorcroft writes contemporary women’s fiction with occasionally unexpected themes. The daughter of two soldiers, Sue was born in Germany and went on to spend much of her childhood in Malta and Cyprus. She likes reading, Zumba, FitStep, yoga, and watching Formula 1.

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    • 4/5
      While not as light a novel as the cover and title might suggest, this is a well-written and interesting book. It features the renovation of a village pub, with a disaster in the early days that somehow pulls the villagers together after initial dissatisfaction. Sue Moorcroft creates believable and three-dimensional characters, and I was particularly fond of the elderly Gabe who owns the pub. Some important and serious issues are covered in the book, and there's also a budding relationship: that of the project manager, Alexia, and Gabe's nephew Ben, who's rather dour but kind-hearted and very hard-working. It's a lovely book, marred by two over-detailed and unnecessary intimate scenes, the first of which was even more shocking in its timing, after the briefest of acquaintance. I hesitate, therefore, to recommend it unless you're comfortable with that kind of thing. However, I liked the rest of the book very much indeed. There's an owl and some kittens who are delightful, and the ending, if a little predictable, is entirely satisfactory.