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
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. |
Prize Two
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. |