Written by Samantha Henthorn⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
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Today, I'm delighted to bring you my review of the sixth and final story in the Curmudgeon Avenue series of madness and mayhem. But before that, I should like to thank the author, Samantha Henthorn, and Book Funnel for an Advanced Review Copy of her soon-to-be-released,
A Curmudgeonly Christmas: Curmudgeon Avenue #6, for my review.
A Curmudgeonly Christmas: Curmudgeon Avenue #6, for my review.
The blurb:
Curmudgeon Avenue has been going on for quite some time, some would say for longer than reasonably necessary... In this Curmudgeonly edition, the nincompoops of Curmudgeon Avenue would like to wish you a happy Christmas.Gordon Bennett is obsessed with the pothole growth on the street as we get proper emosh at Wantha and Ricky's wedding. Christmas is coming, and Francesca is getting fat meanwhile Zandra may have overdone it with the scented candles. And the ghosts are immune to any lockdown restrictions.
Put down the sausage rolls and the leftover wine, A Curmudgeonly Christmas is a perfect end to the Curmudgeon Avenue series, and the year!
Satire
Fiction
My thoughts:
A Curmudgeonly Christmas wraps up this delightfully funny series with two weddings and a final farewell for one much-loved, prominent character and two others who I thought deserved it!The Curmudgeon Avenue series has been mad, crazy, ridiculous, hysterically funny, but most of all inciteful. The events and characters are extreme, but I recognised behaviours and attributes in people I know, so perhaps not as extreme as they might first appear.
A Curmudgeonly Christmas has been written with more than a nod to 2020. There are references to Covid, self-isolating, social-distancing, the restrictions, mask-wearing, Zoom-meetings, Brexit, and my favourite phrase "a substantial scotch-egg". In years to come we may not remember the furore over the definition of the term "substantial meal" as applied to licencing laws, but today it made me chuckle.
The Curmudgeon Avenue series has been an absolute joy to read, and I would recommend it to readers who enjoy unique and quirky stories. These stories have been well-written, in a northern voice, with likeable if slightly offbeat characters, which kept me going back for more.
Happy Publication Day for A Curmudgeonly Christmas Samantha Henthorn, and I look forward to reading whatever comes next!
| Author Bio – Samantha Henthorn |
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Join Samantha Henthorn's mailing list to catch up with all the gossip and freebies from Curmudgeon Avenue.  Samantha Henthorn was born in 1970something in Bury, England. When she was a child, she read Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton. When she was a teenager she watched Victoria Wood and read Stephen King. Now she reads lots of things. Last Christmas, her husband bought her a DNA kit and Samantha found out that she is 96% Mancunian. Therefore, Samantha is well suited to her chosen genre, comedy-drama set in Manchester. Readers have compared her books to Fawlty Towers, Sophie Kinsella and The Bridget Jones Series. Her books include the contemporary social satire series, Curmudgeon Avenue. The historical fiction '1962' (An Uplifting Tale of 1960s Lancashire), the short story collection 'Quirky Tales to Make Your Day' and the novella 'Piccalilly'. She has one cat, one dog, one gorgeous grown-up daughter and one husband. When not reading or writing, she is listening to heavy metal (particularly the grunge years of the early ’90s). Samantha would be thrilled to bits if someone read - or listened to her books. Samantha had a twenty-year nursing career in the NHS, working both in hospital and community settings. After a diagnosis of MS in 2005, she eventually accepted early retirement in 2014. Looking for a career where she can work for herself within a paced routine, Samantha remembered her love of reading and drew on her observation skills and imagination to start writing. Samantha often feels as though she is living in a sit-com and this is reflected in her style. Samantha looks after her condition by attending physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, sleeping whenever and wherever possible, wearing sunglasses indoors, avoiding emotional vampires and enjoying life as much as she physically can. |
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Thank you Deborah! And thanks for reading all six you deserve a medal! :)
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