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First Sentence: The week before Christmas, the smell and taste of it were in the air, a kind of excitement, an urgency about everything.

A few days before Christmas, 13-year-old Gracie Phillips comes across 8 year-old Minnie Maude Mudway standing in the cold. Her uncle, a rag and bone man, was found dead in the street with his cart and Charlie, the mule, missing. Gracie starts out by promising to help her find Charlie, but goes on to help her find out who killed her uncle.

Anne Perry's Christmas books are wonderful gifts to her readers and always feature one of the secondary characters of her series. A young, pre-Pitt family, Gracie takes center stage yet even at this young age, you see her grit, determination and indomitable spirit. She is determined that she'll learn to read and improve her life, but doesn't let her lack of skill stop her. Yet I so agree with the wonderful, slightly mysterious, Mr. Balthasar when he states, "...Everyone should read. There is a whole magical world waiting for you, people to meet and places to go, flights of the mid and the heart you can't even imagine."

Speaking of places to go, the sense of time and place is one of the things I most admire in Ms. Perry's writing. You feel the cold wind and see the dirty alleys, but also the wreaths on the doors and the lights. The dialogue is written in dialect, which took me a bit to get on to, but I quickly forgot it was even there.

Lest you think this is a light Christmas story; it's not. This is not the London of drawing rooms, but of back alleys, the poor, desperate and hungry. There is fear and cruelty and a mystery with tension, suspense and a wonderful ending.

I look forward to seeing who Ms. Perry brings us next year.

A CHRISTMAS PROMISE (Hist Mys-Gracie Phipps-England-Victorian) - Ex
Perry, Anne - 7th Christmas book
Ballantine Books, 2009, US Hardcover - ISBN: 9780345510662


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A Christmas Promise A Novel Anne Perry 9780345510662 Books Reviews

Came to me like a brand new book, I just finished reading it and enjoyed. Thanks so much for great used books at "perfect" prices and prompt delivery.
A mystery develops as Minnie Maude looks for her lost donkey. A story of friendship. A good read, does the mystery move in time for Christmas.
The thing that I didn't like about this story is the dialogue. What a pain to be reading while trying to figure out what some words were. It might be more genuine, but it's harder on the flow. Other than that, it's a cute story.
It is nice to know what happens with some of Perry's characters before you met them for the first time. Gracie is true to form--wanting to help where she can It was a lot for two little girls to accomplish but not necessarily impossible. I've known children to do extraordinary things in my time as a teacher.
Anne Perry is quite a lady and a prolific author. Her Christmas gifts to us are small novels that deal with a character from one of her Thomas and Charlotte Pitt or Hester and William Monk novels, and what impact they have in the story.
I wrote Mrs. Perry and she sent me a Christmas card and I have it in the first of the series, and it is precious to me.
This year's book deals with Gracie Phillips, the spunky maid and friend of the Pitts. This deals with a time just before she meets the Pitts and starts a new life with them.
Gracie is thirteen and comes across an eight year old girl, Minnie Maude. Minnie is upset that her uncle, who is a pan handler, has been killed, and his cart and her beloved donkey, Charlie.
Feeling sorry for Minnie, Gracie joins her after her chores and cleaning job, find the donkey, and see who killed Minnie's uncle.
A wise man named Balthasar helps the girls unfurl the mystery and the girls have a gift for the Christ Child in the manger. Only they get the best gifts ever.
It is a short, but very sweet read that means so much for us Anne Perry fans.
Merry Christmas Mrs.Perry! Thanks for your gift to us!
Takes a new approach to each Christmas novel and brings forth new and interesting depth to the secondary characters from the prime series.
I really enjoy these Anne Perry Christmas stories. They are novellas. Very fine indeed.

Some people who are not followers of Anne Perry buy these stories and then write negative reviews. Readers such as that should be aware that these novellas take place during the Victorian Age and Anne Perry presents conditions in the Victorian Age as they really were. So just as Charles Dickens wrote about the sad conditions of the Victorian Age, so does Anne Perry both in her full length mystery series and in these Christmas short novels. Things in the 19th century were very different than they are now in the 21st century. Keep that in mind if you have not read up on the Victorian age before you read your first Anne Perry.
First Sentence The week before Christmas, the smell and taste of it were in the air, a kind of excitement, an urgency about everything.

A few days before Christmas, 13-year-old Gracie Phillips comes across 8 year-old Minnie Maude Mudway standing in the cold. Her uncle, a rag and bone man, was found dead in the street with his cart and Charlie, the mule, missing. Gracie starts out by promising to help her find Charlie, but goes on to help her find out who killed her uncle.

Anne Perry's Christmas books are wonderful gifts to her readers and always feature one of the secondary characters of her series. A young, pre-Pitt family, Gracie takes center stage yet even at this young age, you see her grit, determination and indomitable spirit. She is determined that she'll learn to read and improve her life, but doesn't let her lack of skill stop her. Yet I so agree with the wonderful, slightly mysterious, Mr. Balthasar when he states, "...Everyone should read. There is a whole magical world waiting for you, people to meet and places to go, flights of the mid and the heart you can't even imagine."

Speaking of places to go, the sense of time and place is one of the things I most admire in Ms. Perry's writing. You feel the cold wind and see the dirty alleys, but also the wreaths on the doors and the lights. The dialogue is written in dialect, which took me a bit to get on to, but I quickly forgot it was even there.

Lest you think this is a light Christmas story; it's not. This is not the London of drawing rooms, but of back alleys, the poor, desperate and hungry. There is fear and cruelty and a mystery with tension, suspense and a wonderful ending.

I look forward to seeing who Ms. Perry brings us next year.

A CHRISTMAS PROMISE (Hist Mys-Gracie Phipps-England-Victorian) - Ex
Perry, Anne - 7th Christmas book
Ballantine Books, 2009, US Hardcover - ISBN 9780345510662