A Haunting at Holkham: from the author of the bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting | 
Should have posted this a couple of days ago but events (commonly known as getting symptoms of a bad cold, doing a test and testing positive for the ‘rona 🙄), so here‘s my slightly late December pick for #12BooksOf2021. It‘s a slow, gently paced book, not the greatest writing ever but the historic and geographic detail of an area I know well made this a really enjoyable read for me.
@Andrew65
pickA slow, gentle, easy read, mixing cosy crime and a ghost story. The author mines a rich seam of historical detail from her own life growing up at Holkham Hall (she is a member of the Coke family, who have owned the Holkham Estate since the early 17th Century.) Having visited the Estate many times, I loved the details of the house and village, and the story itself, though slow-burning, is engaging. Worth a read.
My parents live near Holkham, I‘ve visited the village and it‘s impressive beach many times, and the Hall gardens a few times, so this could be an interesting read. The author is the daughter of Thomas Cole, 8th Earl of Leicester, whose family have owned the Holkham Estate since the early 1600s. So I‘m intrigued and interested to read this one.
