Figgy Pudding

Figgy Pudding
PENNY JORDAN

PENNY JORDAN is one of Mills & Boon’s most popular authors. Sadly Penny died from cancer on 31st December 2011, aged sixty-five. She leaves an outstanding legacy, having sold over a hundred million books around the world. She wrote a total of a hundred and eighty-seven novels for Mills & Boon, including the phenomenally successful A Perfect Family, To Love, Honour & Betray, The PerfectSinner and Power Play, which hit the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller lists. Loved for her distinctive voice, her success was in part because she continually broke boundaries and evolved her writing to keep up with readers’ changing tastes. Publishers Weekly said about Jordan, ‘Women everywhere will find pieces of themselves in Jordan’s characters’ and this perhaps explains her enduring appeal.

Although Penny was born in Preston, Lancashire, and spent her childhood there, she moved to Cheshire as a teenager and continued to live there for the rest of her life. Following the death of her husband she moved to the small traditional Cheshire market town on which she based her much-loved Crighton books.

Penny was a member and supporter of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Romance Writers of America—two organisations dedicated to providing support for both published and yet-to-be published authors. Her significant contribution to women’s fiction was recognised in 2011, when the Romantic Novelists’ Association presented Penny with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Crightons (#u01b37f68-6c72-5296-acb6-9c26e82f8091)

A Perfect Family

The Perfect Seduction

Perfect Marriage Material

Figgy Pudding

The Perfect Lover

The Perfect Sinner

The Perfect Father

A Perfect Night

Coming Home

Starting Over

Figgy Pudding

Penny Jordan

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Table of Contents

Cover (#uba0abf43-1e9b-559a-8aae-365e360f4a76)

About the Author (#u6637cd97-e443-5e9a-940d-1f917b8dfd1f)

The Crightons

Title Page (#ub69b13ed-390b-58a5-9400-c72c3eb90d8b)

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

EPILOGUE

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

PENNY JORDAN’S FIGGY PUDDING

(Makes two large puddings)

This is a traditional English recipe.

110g/1 cup chopped almonds

110g/ ¾ cup chopped figs

450g/3 cups raisins

225g/ ½ lb currants

225g/1½ cups sultanas

110g/ ¾ cup mixed peel

110g/ ¾ cup chopped glacé cherries

110g/ ¾ cup plain flour

2 tsp ground mixed spice

2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground nutmeg

225g/1¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar

225g/ ½ lb shredded suet or vegetarian suet

225g/4 cups fresh white breadcrumbs

225g/ ½ lb grated apple (about 2 medium apples)