Bøker av Evalina Mason

Jonathan Whittaker, Penmouth's vicar for the last twenty five years, knows his little church desperately needs a boost. Fund raisers like bake sales and talent shows no longer hold appeal. Most of his attendees are at an age where they are on restricted diets for one reason or another. Time has made their singing and dancing days an enhanced memory. The budget becomes more dismal each month and taxes will soon be due. Now, a peculiar cult has settled a short distance from the church. Worse yet, it seems to hold real appeal for some of the young people in the village, especially Jenny, who used to regularly show up for church on Sunday mornings. Jonathan knows he has to take action to bring her back into the fold. Believing he has prayed thoughtfully, he advises God of his intentions and heads off to do battle with the cult leader. Things do not go as planned! Dominic, of Caribbean heritage, is the new doctor in town. When his assistant unexpectedly quits, he hires Gemma knowing almost nothing about her. Both, adapting to the fabric of the village, find themselves pulled into the confusions facing the church. Readers will be entertained by the amusing efforts of diverse characters, young and old, as they attempt to find resolution on a variety of prickly issues.

Evalina Mason invites you to visit Penmouth on the Cornish coast. In this apparently quiet little village not only will you find strange happenings in the churchyard, you will also find that someone really does have a skeleton in their closet. Here, sea shanties as well as hymns are sometimes sung in the local church. A pint of bitters warmly awaits you at The Grey Hare along with a generous platter of bangers and mash. Visitors, along with eccentric residents, enjoy walking the stone path labyrinth that sits just up the way on a promontory overlooking the English Channel. Quiet little villages often only appear that way on the surface. Lying slightly below the facade, one might find something quite different. Penmouth is one of those villages. Make yourself a cup of tea. Kick off your shoes. Wrap yourself in something warm, and tuck the cat beside you to slip away to another venue. It is the author's fondest hope that when you return, you'll be feeling refreshed and renewed. Perhaps you'll even wish for another visit... Robert's pleasant, routine and predictable retirement days are totally shattered when his recently widowed, highly-organized sister, Priscilla, comes to stay with him while her home is being reroofed. Expecting it to be a short and intense visit, he braces himself for the invasion. True to form, she leaves no part of his formerly serene world untouched. Even his socks fall under her scrutiny. Telling himself that her visit won't last forever, he frequently commiserates with an old friend over a pint of bitters in the local pub. Understanding that she's in grief and seeing that she's not the spring chicken that she was a few years ago, he slips into the legion of long-suffering males. A spiritual man more by action than by word, he finds his tolerance further tested when she tells him that the roofing project will take longer than originally expected. To create a bit of distance from her, Robert often assists the local vicar wi