Beppie Harrison

The Grandest Christmas is a cozy book, in which all of the characters are good people at heart, with warm family relationships (one partial exception, but no real bad guys). The hero and heroine are mostly up against their own insecurities about class (and past romantic disappointments). I appreciate that the author made more than the usual efforts to make this historically plausible, as I have read other Regency romances which convey stunning ignorance of Irish history (and I am not a historian, or even a particularly picky layperson).

It's a short novel/longish novella, and possibly because of the length the ending feels a little rushed, but all in all it was quite enjoyable.… (meer)