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A Christmas Journey (Paperback)

by Anne Perry (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Headline; New Ed edition (1 Nov 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755321154
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755321155
  • Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 222,955 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'This brief work has an almost Jamesian subtlety, and with its powerful message of responsibility and redemption - “We need both to forgive and to be forgiven” - it conveys a moral force in keeping with the season’ Wall Street Journal 12/12/03 (Wall Street Journal )


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 Attending the party and taking a leading role in the ensuing investigation is one of the most beloved characters from Anne Perry’s Thomas Pitt series: Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould.
Lady Vespasia’s friend Isobel has made a cruel remark about Gwendolen Kilmuir on the night Gwendolen was meant to have become engaged to the eligible Bertie Rosythe. Gwendolen flees the room, and the next morning her body is found in the lake in the gardens of the estate. It appears she has jumped from the bridge. The host, Omegus Jones and Vespasia decide to find who or what might have led Gwendolen to resort to such an extreme measure. They vow to make the guilty party seek forgiveness and expiation through the task of taking a sealed letter written by Gwendolen before her death to her mother up in the north of Scotland.
The journey will be both physically and emotionally arduous but will bring answers to some unexpected and profound questions.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A nice Christmas gift, 13 Dec 2003
By Valerie Adolph "Garden Godwottery" (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
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This is a much shorter book than most of those from Anne Perry; it’s a piece of light rewading for and about Christmas. The writer takes Aunt Vespasia, one the favourite characters from her Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, and tells the story of one Christmas in her younger days. It isn’t exactly a mystery story - a young woman commits suicide and her reasons for doing that seem obvious. But Anne Perry is master of digging beneath the obvious to find the truth beneath the truth.

The result is a tale that flows from an elegant house party in a country mansion north to the frozen snowy wastes of Scotland (and Anne Perry lives in northern Scotland so we can assume she knows whereof she speaks). It’s a pilgrimage of sorts, with Vespasia and her friend Isobel toiling through storms and snowdrifts to find the mother of the dead woman and, incidentally the truth behind the suicide.

The only thing spoiling this good story is the overly moralistic tone that Anne Perry is increasingly becoming bogged down in. Of course you want characters with deep motivation - some pure, some mistaken, some evil - and the battle between good and evil always makes for good plot structure. But Anne Perry does tend to overdo it, leaving the reader wondering if she can stand being swamped beneath so many layers of virtue and morality.

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