THERE SEEMS TO BE A MESSAGE WRITTEN INSIDE YOUR CHRISTMAS
PUDDING. AND IT'S IN FRENCH. MEET ME AT FARLEY CASTLE, TOMORROW
AFTERNOON. MOST URGENT.'
Her great friend Jane Austen warned her against accepting a
position at Miss Climpson's Select Seminary for Young Ladies.
Nevertheless, just before Christmas, Miss Arabella Dempsey finds
herself face to face with French aristocrats and international spies
- and it's all because of Reginald  Turnip' Fitzhugh, often
mistaken for the elusive spy the Pink Carnation, who has blundered
across her path.
When Turnip and Arabella discover a cryptic French message inside a
beautifully wrapped Christmas pudding, they are launched on a
festive adventure Â- from Jane Austen's modest house to the grand
estate of the Dukes of Dovedale Â- and, perhaps, love blossoms along
the wayÂ
