THE CHRISTMAS WEDDING

The first flakes of snow are falling when Daisy Marshall receives a letter from her master's son, breaking off their secret engagement. Heartbroken, she flees to Little Creek, a village on the Essex Coast, to live with her aunt and uncle. Although Daisy receives a warm welcome, the village is poverty stricken, suffering under a cruel Lord of the manor, and when cholera hits, the villagers are truly in dire straits. Determined to help, Daisy makes friends in earnest doctor Nicholas, and dashing smuggler Jay – but also dangerous new enemies, who threaten to destroy everything she's built. Can Daisy save the village and find happiness in time for Christmas?

Dilly Court lives in Dorset with her husband John, and her cocker spaniel Barley. Brought up in North East London, Dilly worked in television advertising writing scripts for commercials. Now a Sunday Times best-selling author, The Christmas Wedding is her thirty-first novel.