11/30/19 THE PERFECT FIT

TITLE: THE PERFECT FIT
PUB: MIRROR BOOKS
PUB DATE: 21st September 2018
AUTHOR: MARY JAYNE BAKER

The Perfect Fit

'A wonderful book with a great story and a sparky, unusual voice. I loved it!' KATIE FFORDE

Escape to the frost-sparkling Yorkshire Dales for some festive fun under the mistletoe! A saucy comedy-romance with more than a sprinkle of Christmas spice – this will lift your spirits and your excitement level!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for costume shop owner Becky Finn. Leaving London to move back home to the twinkly rural village of Egglethwaite, she plans to build a new life for herself with fiancé, Cole.

Keen to raise funds for the struggling village hall she loved as a child, Becky finds herself at the head of a colourful group aiming to revive the Egglethwaite Christmas pantomime. But when that festive feeling sets in, she discovers there's more to panto than innuendo and slapped thighs.

Falling in love was not in the script! But as opening night grows closer, she starts to wonder if the panto will ever make it to the stage and, with handsome co-star Marcus on the scene, if she has chosen her right leading man...

The perfect stocking-filler gift!



REVIEW:


Becky Finn moves back to her home town, the village of Egglethwaite from London. Her fiancée Cole has a rather hard time adapting to country life, and feels like an outsider. Becky is hoping that moving back home would be an ideal situation for her future being married and having children. Becky is adjusting well to life in the village and gets involved with helping raise funds for the community hall by bringing the panto back to life, a memory that Becky remembers well from her childhood.

When I started reading this book, I was not aware of the British pantomime or panto. My understanding of pantomime being an American, are clowns with white painted faces who do not speak a word and entertain audiences with the invisible mirror as their main act and usually done as a solo show. The panto that is described in this amazing story is actually the opposite, where it is a winter musical comedy theater that is raucous, rowdy, silly and loud. The panto has very deep roots, drawing on the 15th and 16th century traditions with characters that include the boy, the dame, a sidekick, lots of audience participation and of course enough innuendos to keep the grown ups entertained as well.

This is the first book I have read from author Mary Jayne Baker, and is the second book of the Love in the Dales series, and it worked for me well as a standalone. I love how funny and sweet the story is and the writing is absolutely amazing and highly entertaining. There are plenty of laugh out loud moments and I loved that this book I am enjoying after a series of thrillers I have been reading. I also enjoyed the characters and the love triangle trope between Becky, her fiancée Cole and the ever so handsome Marcus.

Baker has such a knack for amazing characters and writes a beautiful village life full of funny antics and dialogue that is highly entertaining and also heartwarming. “The Perfect Fit” is an amazing book that I recommend for a fun, hilarious and heart warming read that will put you in a great holiday mood.

Author Bio 

Mary Jayne Baker grew up in rural West Yorkshire, right in the heart of Brontë country... and she's still there. After graduating from Durham University with a degree in English Literature, she dallied with living in cities including London, Nottingham and Cambridge, but eventually came back with her own romantic hero in tow to her beloved Dales, where she first started telling stories about heroines with flaws and the men who love them. More information can be found about Mary Jayne on her website at www.maryjaynebaker.co.uk

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