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Castaway christmas by margaret j baker5/23/2023 It was a fitting time to settle down with the book, as Cut off from Crumpets begins just after Christmas, when the Ridleys are forced to cancel a family holiday to Switzerland and instead decide to visit an old family friend (‘Aunt’ Borage) at her cottage, Moleharbour, in Somerset. I was delighted to receive Cut off from Crumpets, the sequel to Castaway Christmas, from my Mum, and I read it at the start of January. How the children don’t lose courage, but deal with flooding, food shortages and a near death-by-drowning makes for an entertaining as well as warm-hearted read. I thoroughly enjoyed following the adventures of siblings Lincoln, Miranda and Pinks Ridley, who are accidentally separated from their parents and have to fend for themselves in a country cottage hired for Christmas, as treacherous flood waters rise all around them. Baker, an old Puffin paperback children’s book that I’d been meaning to pick up for ages. Over the winter holidays, I read Castaway Christmas by Margaret J.
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