REVIEW: Christmas at Nettleford

[feather_ghyll]

Christmas at Nettleford: Malcolm Saville Armada 1970

This was better than I hoped for. I have another Nettleford/Owlers book but I don’t remember much about it. I think the attraction of ‘Christmas at Nettleford’ is

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[callmemadam]

I read this book every Christmas *because* it reminds me of how Christmas used to be.

The parental sacrifices annoy me because they're so unnecessary. If a school is good enough for Sally, why not for Elizabeth? My guess is that she might not have passed the 11+. St Ann's sounds a tinpot kind of school but her parents would obviously have preferred it to a secondary modern.

Happy New Year to you, too.

[feather_ghyll]

Some aspects are familiar, but our primary school's Christmas fair, which was part of the build-up happened at the start of December and was one of my markers that Christmas was coming such as starting to sing carols. Snow has very rarely been part of Christmas for me :)

I think that theory about Elizabeth not passing the 11+ has a lot of merit.