I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library A Christmas Hopeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Ballantine Books on November 12, 2013 and has 197 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, Dark Tide RisingEleventh in Anne Perry’s Christmas Stories historical mystery series and set in Monk’s Victorian world of 1868, although Monk doesn’t appear in this. My Take It’s a bleak existence, attending parties for the sake of social and business advancement. Things get out of hand, however, and everything in Claudine’s world is overturned. And we encounter the double standards and the huge preference for appearance over character that are so disgusting in a society. People’s prejudices and expectations condemn another, mostly because it’s easier. Don’t want to rock the boat, do we? […]