Cilla married a man who was to inherit a title, but he died before that occurred. Here in Australia we celebrate Christmas during summer, which means no snow (I’m still waiting for MY white Christmas!), visits to the beach, celebrating around the pool, and eating yummy cooling desserts like pavlova.Ĭilla Haverly is a widowed mother of an infant girl. I love the symbolism of the burning up of the old, and the way the light overcomes the darkness, something that was very meaningful in Regency times. A large tree trunk was cut down and transported inside to a main room’s fireplace, then lit with flint and remaining remnants of wood from last year, to remain alight during the twelve days of Christmas. I had so much fun exploring various Regency Christmas traditions! One of the important ones was the collection and lighting of a Yule log. Romantic, Christmassy, tender, witty, warm. But his compassion, wit and faith-fuelled determination might just help him Very musical, but his ability to enter into Christmas cheer has been hamperedīy his struggle to understand the rejection from the only woman he’s ever She’s kind, encouraging, and a wonderful singer. What Christmas tradition does your family enjoy the most?Įdith hides disappointed hopes behind the Mansfield stiff upper lip, all too conscious of family obligations that broke her heart last year. When I sat down to write the Christmas scenes in my novella, I knew my characters’ Yuletide celebrations wouldn’t be complete without a slice of this oh-so-English dessert. When I first read A Christmas Carol, I wanted to sample the holiday sweet beloved by Bob Cratchit and his family and set about replicating it for my own family’s Christmas dinner one year. In one of my favourite scenes in the novella, the characters partake of Christmas dinner, including the festive dessert of the day-plum pudding. I loved researching the way Regency era households went about “keeping Christmas,” comparing and contrasting their traditions to those we observe today. What is one Christmas tradition your characters observe in your story? Pages of this novella are a few nods to The Phantom of the Opera and BeautyĪnd the Beast, both of which provided inspiration for the story.ĭickensian. Winter night comes at a turning point in both of their lives. My heroine, Jenny Grey, is an unwed mother struggling to provideįor her infant daughter in the slums of London. Remote Yorkshire estate while whispers swirl like mist over the moors that aĬurse is responsible for the tragedies that have befallen his family for
The Battle of Waterloo left him scarred inīody and his fiancée’s rejection inflicted wounds deeper still upon his My hero, Dwight Inglewood, the Earl of Amberly, isĪ veteran of the Napoleonic wars. Please share a little about your main characters.
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