Festive Fun - Day 5 - Christina Courtenay

Day 5 of Festive Fun Author Advent's guest is Christina Courtenay tells us what she would prefer to have for dinner on Christmas Day

What is your favourite Christmas Carol/festive song? 

 Ok, I know it’s cheesy, but I just love Wizzard’s ‘I wish it could be Christmas every day’, it always makes me smile

Tree – Real or Artificial? Why?  

Definitely has to be real because there’s nothing better than coming downstairs on Christmas morning and breathing in the wonderful scent of a fir tree.  I usually always buy a small one in a pot as well, which I plant in the garden afterwards so I don’t feel guilty about decimating the world’s tree population 

Christmas dinner – Turkey or Beef or other? ­

I’d prefer ham, meatballs and pickled herring as part of a Swedish ‘smorgasbord’ (which is what I grew up with), but as I live in England now, it’s got to be turkey

Lunch has been demolished and the dishwasher is on....do you walk, sit down for Eastenders and Queen’s speech or have another tradition for after lunch? 

We follow Swedish tradition and don’t open our presents until after the lunch.  It drags out the suspense just that little bit longer and then we can enjoy them without having to do cooking afterwards!

You open the door to Carollers, who would be your dream team of Carollers? 

 Joe Elliott from Def Leppard, Jared Leto from 30 Seconds to Mars, AJ McLean and the other Backstreet Boys, Jeff Lynne from ELO, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac (very strange mixture, I know!)

Blurb:

What will it take to put the past to rest?

Professional genealogist Melissa Grantham receives an invitation to visit her family’s ancestral home, Ashleigh Manor. From the moment she arrives, life-like dreams and visions haunt her. The spiritual connection to a medieval young woman and her forbidden lover have her questioning her sanity, but Melissa is determined to solve the mystery.

Jake Precy, owner of a nearby cottage, has disturbing dreams too, but it’s not until he meets Melissa that they begin to make sense. He hires her to research his family’s history, unaware their lives are already entwined. Is the mutual attraction real or the result of ghostly interference?

A haunting love story set partly in the present and partly in fifteenth century Kent.

Author website: http://christinacourtenay.com/

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Thank you, Christina
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