Never the bride
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A nice lady who runs a B&B in Whitby who turns out to be the Bride of Frankenstein... Brenda has come to Whitby to run a B&B and find some peace and quiet after a long and eventful life. She and her best friend Effie like nothing better than going out for dinner at the Christmas Hotel and keeping their eyes open for any mysterious goings on. And what with sinister beauty salons, peculiar visiting families from Norfolk and roving psychic investigators there are plenty of mysterious goings on. But the most peculiar thing in Whitby may well be Brenda herself. What with her terrible scars, her strange lack of a surname or the fact that she takes two different shoe sizes, Brenda should have known that people as, well, unique, as she is, just aren't destined for a quiet life.
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A pre-read re-read: I'd first read this quirky novel a couple of years back and, having bought the sequel, thought I'd better reacquaint myself with its world.
Brenda, an elderly lady with a mysterious past, has settled in Whitby to run a B+B in her dotage. However, strange things are happening in the town and Brenda, with her apparently prim-and-proper best friend Effie by her side, reluctantly finds herself investigating.
It's a surprisingly sweet gothic mash up of Hammer horror and Miss Marple. Completely original with lots of nods and winks to literature and 50s horror Sci-Fi movies. Thoroughly recommended escapism.
