December's Digest: Books to Look Forward to in 2025, 14 Weeks to Go and—Dolphins!!!

It really is the downhill slide into the festive season now, isn’t it?! My family and I have decamped to our beach house for December and January, although my youngest is lucky enough to have been selected for an exchange in France. He’s heading off on January 6 for eight weeks of French life, swapping summer and the beach for winter and the experience of a lifetime. The rest of us will be soaking up the sun and I’ll be working with a view of the sea for the next few weeks, which is a very nice ...