Thank you to everyone who entered the competition. And the winners are...
Prize One - Kerri, USA:
'My favorite character in the series is Helen. She’s complicated and flawed but has a good heart; I was so glad to see her end up happy with someone in book two.'
Congratulations to Kerri, who I think sums Helen up nicely here. (And I do love it when readers worry about the characters!)
Prize Two - Margaret, UK:
'I love the ladies' and gentlemen's outfitters in Ballater where Claire is kitted out with winterwear. It reminds me of shops my mum took me to in my childhood - we knew the ladies serving and there was definitely a warm fuzzy feeling about the place!'
Prize One - Kerri, USA:
'My favorite character in the series is Helen. She’s complicated and flawed but has a good heart; I was so glad to see her end up happy with someone in book two.'
Congratulations to Kerri, who I think sums Helen up nicely here. (And I do love it when readers worry about the characters!)
Prize Two - Margaret, UK:
'I love the ladies' and gentlemen's outfitters in Ballater where Claire is kitted out with winterwear. It reminds me of shops my mum took me to in my childhood - we knew the ladies serving and there was definitely a warm fuzzy feeling about the place!'
Prize One
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In the second book in the series, The Time and the Place, Hector and Claire have the following conversation.
He smiled, setting the tray down on a big ottoman by the fireplace. ‘I always think tea tastes better out of a proper cup.’ They were lovely pearly-white antique cups and saucers, sprigged with tiny forget-me-nots. ‘And the saucer, of course, accommodates a dunker. You probably don’t indulge in anything as unhealthy as a Hobnob?’ ‘Oh, what the hell. I’ll live dangerously.’ The cups and saucers that these are based on are a matching Georgian coffee cup and teacup with their saucers, dating from about 1810 to 1820. |
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Prize Two
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Again in The Time and the Place, Damian tells Claire:
‘If you asked Hector to name the objects on that table –’ He gestured to the table between the windows, on which the marble bust sat along with a glass vase, a blue and white ceramic dish in the shape of a leaf, and a little china bird – ‘he might get the bust of Aristotle, but that’s it. The knick-knacks aren’t really on his radar.’ This little Georgian pickle dish is what I was thinking of here. |
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