A very coco christmas (Robert Bryndza)

39I love the fact that Robert Bryndza can turn his hand to both crime thrillers and comedy If you haven39t discovered Coco Pinchard yet then this is the perfect introduction39 Joanne Robertson My Chestnut Reading Tree A Very Coco Christmas is a delicious standalone prequel short story to Robert Bryndza39s smashhit Coco Pinchard series with a glorious cast of characters including Daniel39s mother Ethel sister Meryl and a turkey called Jean Paul Belmondo It39s 1985 and eighteenyearold Coco Pinchard is home in London for Christmas after her first term at Aberystwyth University She has started to write and fallen hopelessly in love with Daniel Pinchard a devilishly handsome musician from the wrong side of the river But Coco39s overbearing mother has other plans and resumes her campaign for Coco to meet and marry the 39right sort of man39 preferably Kenneth son of her best friends Adrian and Yvonne Rosebury who will be joining them for Christmas As snow falls softly over the city and Coco tries to juggle a series of hilarious events the stage is set for a Christmas lunch like no other