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Stargazy Pie
There’s nothing quite as strange as other people’s families.
The invitation to spend Christmas with her boss Davey Stanton’s family gets Poppy inextricably entangled in the family politics and convoluted machinations of a group of Cornish eccentrics who come complete with their own witch. And then there’s the tempting problem of Davey’s gorgeous younger brother.
The invitation to spend Christmas with her boss Davey Stanton’s family gets Poppy inextricably entangled in the family politics and convoluted machinations of a group of Cornish eccentrics who come complete with their own witch. And then there’s the tempting problem of Davey’s gorgeous younger brother.
Paperback, 400 pages
Published
November 5th 2002
by Arrow Books
(first published June 25th 2002)
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This book was beyond my expectation. Ever since the beginning till the end we see the main character, Poppy changing throughout the chapters that follows one after another. Poppy is just like any other girls who is insecure and shy. She was adopted and so she never felt as close to her family as she does when she spends her Christmas break with the Stantons, they are Davey's family (Poppy's boss). Each chapter there was always something surprising, always something new. We go through the journey...more
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I loved Lockington's personal memoir Cupboard Love, so I really wanted to like her fiction. But all I could think the overly-eccentric family was a bit too much, and that house was too chilly for comfort.
Nice and pleasant read - good for Christmas mood.
A romp! Brilliant, funny and easy to read, an absolute pleasurable, feel-good book. It was set in Cornwall, which is always a point in favour for me, but the descriptions of the lovably eccentric Stanton's, their gracefully falling down house and their riotous Christmas were fantastic and made me want to be part of it. It is predictable but so what, it's such a romp-along book that you are right behind the whole cast of adorable characters...all except the predictable baddie - very apt for a Chr...more
Absolute cracker of a book. I was up till 4am this morning finishing this book- I just couldn't put it down. Will be looking up more of her books.
Good story, easy reading, would be a good Christmas read.
British chick lit but not the strongest offering
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