Countdown to 2025: Day 6

  This year I am participating in Countdown to 2025 hosted by Lynn from Lynn's Books. Today is day 6 and the prompt for today is Christmas stocking – stocking fillers – a novella or short story  

I recently read The Christmas Book Hunt by Jenny Colgan. This was an Amazon First read so I grabbed it straight away! I thought it was a fun read so that is what I am choosing to share with you today, and I thought I would share a mini review as well.

When Mirren's beloved Aunt Violet asks her to find a copy of a book that she had as a child, A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, as her dying wish, Mirren knows she will do whatever it takes to find it. Not just any copy, the one that was hand illustrated by famed illustrator Aubrey Beardsley.

Little does Mirren know this is going to start a mission that takes her across the country, visiting antique bookstores in London, Hay-on-Wye and Edinburgh. It turns out that the antique book trade can be quite cut-throat, so whilst Mirren is innocently asking questions to try to find the book, there are others who are determined to stop her getting the book, if it indeed exists.

Whilst this is a short story, it did make me wonder why I haven't read any Jenny Colgan books for a couple of years. It wasn't intentional, and I need to do something to rectify this.

I have just realised that this story seems to be connected to some other books. I will have to do some homework to see if I can work out which ones.

In summary, a fun Christmassy, bookish read!

Tomorrow's prompt is Christmas Tree – a winter read