Tales from Wendlebury Barrow Books
A fun, feel-good quick read novelette featuring Sophie Sayers and friends from the bestselling Sophie Sayers Cozy Mystery series. In the first of this series of entertaining novelettes, presented in a compact paperback the size of a picture postcard (6" x 4"), Sophie volunteers to help with a charity knitting project in her adopted village in the Cotswolds. What could possibly go wrong? When that village is Wendlebury Barrow, anything might happen - such as the only yarnbombing event ever to include a real explosion. Fortunately Sophie Sayers is on hand to create order out of the ensuing smoke-filled chaos and to uncover a few surprises along the way. This gentle, quick read (about 20% the length of a novel) includes favourite characters from the Sophie Sayers Cozy Mysteries and also introduces some new ones, including the mysterious Ariel Fey, self-appointed protector of sheep and unlikely adversary of the village knitting fraternity. This little story will make you laugh out loud at the antics of this lively village community, touch your heart with poignant matters of friendship, love, and loss, and lift your spirits with a guaranteed happy ending for all concerned.
A fun, feel-good quick read about Sophie Sayers and friends from the bestselling Sophie Sayers Cozy Mystery series. In the second of this series of quick reads, in a compact paperback the size of a picture postcard (6" x 4"), young Tommy's new passion for wild birds' eggs causes him to put the village of Wendlebury Barrow on the map for all the wrong reasons. In the company of her kitten, a sausage dog, and a handsome stranger keen on birdwatching, Sophie Sayers tries to create order out of chaos, without driving her bookseller boyfriend Hector away. This gentle, quick read (about 30% the length of a Sophie Sayers novel) includes your favourite characters from the Sophie Sayers Cozy Mysteries and also introduces engaging new characters, from a lonely old widow to a trio of birdwatching brothers - not forgetting cute sausage dog Bunty! A feel-good read to make you laugh out loud at the latest antics in Wendlebury Barrow, The Clutch of Eggs will touch your heart with poignant matters of family, friendship, love, and loss, and lift your spirits with a guaranteed happy ending for all concerned.
A warm and witty collection of gentle stories of Cotswold life, set in Wendlebury Barrow, the village featured in the bestselling Sophie Sayers Cozy Mystery series. But you won't find any murder mysteries or crazy crimes in these stories - just uplifting, short festive tales, full of favourite characters from the Sophie Sayers novels , and generously sprinkled with Debbie Young's characteristic humour. Join Sophie Sayers, her friends and neighbours , as they share village Christmas traditions, from Christmas shopping in the Hector's House bookshop and carol-singing on the village green to ringing in the New Year in the ancient bell tower of the parish church of St Bride.. There's also a glimpse into the backstory of Sophie's late Great Auntie May , from whom Sophie inherited her cottage, with May's late-in-life romantic reunion with her childhood sweetheart, Joshua (now Sophie's elderly next-door-neighbour). Look out for a guest appearance by Gemma Lamb , Joe Spryke and the girls of nearby St Bride's School , home to Debbie Young's popular Gemma Lamb Cozy Mystery series. The paperback edition of this quick-read collection makes the perfect stocking filler or Secret Santa gift, to be enjoyed by anyone who loves heartwarming, funny stories set at Christmas time. The ebook makes the perfect gift-to-self to divert and relax you as you prepare for your own Christmas celebrations. If you enjoy this book, you'll love the third Sophie Sayers Cozy Mystery, Murder in the Manger , for a novel-length Christmas story, and the second Gemma Lamb Cozy Mystery, Sinister Stranger at St Bride's , set in the run-up to the quirky boarding school's Christmas Fair.