and trails her everywhere from the paddock to the village shop with beccas judes aunt priceless tips on grooming horses holly comfortably settles down at old place doing her chores in the day and reading her grans journal on wartime nursing in the evenings in hope of discovering who ned martland was and whether he was related to jude martland contrary to her plans of a quiet christmas holly starts hosting unexpected visitors at old place from the local farmer to the gardener to family leaving her in the middle of a fulltime cooking job more visitors arrive and some back for good the plot gets predictable by now making way for one big christmas gathering and the impending romance between jude and holly still twelve days of christmas is unputdownable the authors bias or perhaps weakness for food is manifest in the way the protagonist lovingly serves her food experiments with new recipes as well as leftover food and doles out invaluable tips on planning ahead for dinners finally jude martland arrives on a snowy night and hollys routine life is suddenly thrown off gear she feels a strong connection with jude his family his pets and so much as begins to look forward to christmas with the only exception of a couple of passionate kisses exchanged in the kitchen the great romance between holly and jud never quite takes off until the end and this can be a disappointment for suckers for romance though the writer beautifully makes up for it by sharing some of her exclusive christmas recipes in the concluding pages if you havent yet read this warm wintry tale its good time to pick up your copy and snuggle up with it over a steaming cup of coffee and some hot bakes and this is unmistakably the writers intentif you like the book and wish to buy your own copy click here anweshamittraindiatimescoin