<h2>&#8216;If you only treat yourself to one festive read this year it has to be this one&#8217;<em> Goodreads Reviewer</em></h2> <p>When Juliet Hill unwittingly discovers a most-definitely-not-hers-rhinestone-studded lace thong in her high-flying lawyer boyfriend&#8217;s apartment this usually feisty chef is suddenly single and facing a very blue Christmas &#8211; with only a ready meal for one to keep her company!</p> <p>So when she&#8217;s personally requested to cater for the family at Thornton Hall three days before Christmas it&#8217;s not long before Juliet&#8217;s standing at the (back) door of the Earl of Gloucester&#8217;s impossibly grand ancestral pile.</p> <p>The halls are decked the guests are titled those below the stairs are delightfully catty and all-American Juliet sets to work cooking up a glorious British Christmas with all the trimmings.</p> <p>But other flames are burning besides those on the stove&#8230; Sparks fly with Edward the gorgeous ex-soldier turned resident chef and are those sidelong looks Juliet&#8217;s getting from her boss the American tycoon Jasper Roth?</p> <p>As the snow starts to fall on the idyllic Cotswolds countryside so does the veneer of genteel high society and there are more than a few ancient skeletons rattling out of the Hall&#8217;s numerous dark cupboards!</p> <p> <strong>CHRISTMAS AT THORNTON HALL is a country house rom com for the modern age a must-read for fans of the scandals and drama of Downton Abbey and the charm and wit of Helen Fielding.</strong> </p>