Maisie Middleton at the Wedding

Maisie Middleton is an old favourite which makes this scrumptious new book about her all the more welcome. The prospect for Maisie, a confirmed tomboy, of being a bridesmaid at her Aunt Rosy's wedding is clearly appalling. With gentle humour Nita Sowter shows her resistance becoming less and less, as she meets George, the proposed pageboy, who casually mentions the banquet that usually follows a wedding, and she finds that the dress isn't really so itchy and tickly. The day quite restores her faith in weddings, so much so that she and George invent a wedding game to play in the garden afterwards. A book to go 'Ah!' over - we all did!