reveal all to her and allow her to be free.

It's a charming ghost story, with lots of echoes of Christmas past which make it the perfect festive reading. The introduction explains that the story is actually medieval, much older than the Victorian setting it is given in the book, but I think this works very well. It's a short read, perfect for enjoying in the run up to Christmas.

Saturday, 22 December 2018

That's it - we're on holiday at last, yippee ! Time to chill out, catch up with the family and eat ten tonnes of turkey !! Have a lovely Christmas, whatever you get up to, and here's the second-to-last freebie roundup of the year :)

Pick up your Rituals Ayuverda harmonizing foaming shower gel from Friday 21st Decembersorry for Emery or to regard her with contempt. She seems like an intelligent woman, helping to set up a reading and writing club within the prison, but she is frequently beaten up by the other inmates, which is usually a sign of some horrible crime that the prisoner is being "punished" for. Her dealings with her therapist at first show her to be a manipulative, uncooperative patient, which also doesn't help to give us a good first impression of her.

Inserted into the prison-life stories and scenes with the therapist are many flashbacks to her younger self, starting out with a scene when she is being beaten up by two boys in the school toilets and her soon-to-be hero, Jack Charles, walks in and saves her. The pair