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Deck the Halles: Next Christmas at the Little French Llama Farm Kindle Edition

by Stephanie Dagg (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
It’s nearly Christmas at the little French llama farm. Nick and Noelle are looking forward to a quiet, romantic Christmas together, but at the last moment Noelle is asked to book the local agricultural 'halles' for the imminent national llama show. The original venue went up in smoke. Noelle does as asked, thinking that’s all she’ll have to do. She couldn’t be more wrong! On top of all the extra work this good deed makes for her, various friends and relatives start turning up on the doorstep as the result of assorted crises. The farmhouse is about to burst at the seams! Add in a few other events, such as playing the part of a pixie at a Christmas fête, Nick’s book launch, training a non-cooperative llama for the agility class in the show and catering for more and more mouths, and Noelle is pushed ever closer to the end of her tether. Can she hold it together and stay as calm as a llama? Or will she be the next member of her family to make a bolt for it? This festive, feel-good and fun novel is the sequel to ‘Fa-La-Llama-La: Christmas at the Little French Llama Farm’ but can be read as a standalone.
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  4. Publication date
    November 20, 2018
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07KRKSQ9Q
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 20, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 577 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 327 pages
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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"...So easy and enjoyable to read, you won't want it to end...." Read more

"A fun Christmas story with animals and romance included. This book was wonderful, I hope there will be more to come from Stephanie Dagg." Read more

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Customers enjoy the story of this Christmas book, describing it as sweet and perfect for the holiday season, with one customer noting it features animals.

"This is the perfect Christmas story for YA and the young at heart - plus all animal lovers! So easy and enjoyable to read, you won't want it to end...." Read more

"A fun Christmas story with animals and romance included. This book was wonderful, I hope there will be more to come from Stephanie Dagg." Read more

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  • Maria A Hall
    5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect Christmas story
    Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2016
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    This is the perfect Christmas story for YA and the young at heart - plus all animal lovers! So easy and enjoyable to read, you won't want it to end. I do hope Stephanie Dagg is busy working on a sequel because I, for one, want to know what happens to Noelle and the llamas. Filled with fascinating detail about llamas, and centered around all the things we wish for in happy families, happy lives, and happy endings - without being twee - Stephanie's unique take on life in rural France and her love of animals shine through. An excellent Christmas gift for many a book lover - young or old.
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  • Rosalynn B
    5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas in France
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2017
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    A fun Christmas story with animals and romance included. This book was wonderful, I hope there will be more to come from Stephanie Dagg.
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  • Catherine A
    4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Story
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2019
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    This book was a delight! The characters were likeable, the story was interesting, this book was a pleasure to read!
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  • Grass monster
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Christmas Read
    Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2016
    The Blurb :
    It’s very nearly Christmas and, temporarily jobless and homeless, Noelle is back at home with her parents. However, a phone call from her cousin Joe, who runs a house-and-pet-sitting service, saves her from a festive season of Whist, boredom and overindulging.
    So Noelle is off to France to mind a dozen South American mammals. She arrives amidst a blizzard and quickly discovers that something is definitely wrong at the farm. The animals are there all right, but pretty much nothing else – no power, no furniture and, disastrously, no fee. Add to that a short-tempered intruder in the middle of the night, a premature delivery, long-lost relatives and participation in a living crèche, and this is shaping up to be a noel that Noelle will never forget.
    Fa-La-Llama-La is a feel-good, festive and fun romcom with a resourceful heroine, a hero who's a bit of a handful and some right woolly charmers.

    My Thoughts :
    Firstly who couldnt resist such a pretty cover?. Also it is Christmas, so with a title like Fa-La-Llama-La, it was certainly a book I wanted to read.
    This is the first book I have read by Stephanie Dagg and wont be the last.
    I fell in love with this story and charactors immediately, it warmed my heart and I was so engrossed that I didnt realise it was way past my bedtime. Noelle is such a likeable person and comes across as very caring and down to earth. I was a little reserved about Nick in the start but I grew to like him, him and Noelle made a great team and I was willing something to happen between them from the beginning. Now the Llama's, what can I say!. I have recently read another book about these animals and fell in love with them so they were a perfect addition to this story. It would of been easy to of used horses or sheep but Llama's are different and not that often talked or written about. I loved that they had their own names and personalities. This was very well written and thought out with beautiful descriptions of France, the village and the weather. I can just picture them sitting in the local bakery with the tantalizing smells of bread and cakes, warming hot chocolate and a carpet of snow outside in the street. The snowy scenes have me all set for the festive season. Looking forward to reading more from Stephanie Dagg in the future.
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  • L. Gott
    5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas romance plus llamas!--hugely enjoyable
    Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2016
    In a good romantic comedy, the love between the couple often grows almost unawares in the medium of another love: love for a child in need; love for animals; love for a place, such as a small town, a farm, vineyard, or homestead; love for family and the need to recover or restore relationships. Love nurtured for these things tends to overflow, and a couple fortunate enough to share a common purpose begins to see each other in it. If it is a comedy, they laugh over the mishaps, confusions, and very human stumbles along the way. If it is Christmas, well, all the better.

    In Fa-La-Llama-La, many of these charming ingredients come together with much delight! We meet the aptly named Noelle, who is living with her parents temporarily (she hopes), after the triple whammy of a broken engagement, the loss of her job, and the death of a dearly loved grandmother–seemingly, the recipe for a Christmas spent licking her wounds. Yet, with so much abruptly snatched away from her, it turns out she has a deep reservoir of love left to give. But llamas? Not at all what she’d imagined for her holidays, until her cousin Joe called with the offer of a last minute pet-sitting job in France, specifically at a farm six hours drive south of Paris, in Creuse, a départment in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Creuse was known in its rich medieval past as La Marche.

    Noelle arrives at her job in a major snowstorm and is pretty shocked to find an empty, unheated house, no electricity, and the erstwhile owners’ twelve llamas out in the thickly snow-covered field. She manages to camp in the house with her supplies, making sure that the llamas have some food and an open barn to shelter in (if they wish–these are creatures from the Andes mountains). When she finally falls into a shivery sleep, she is confronted by another surprise: the new (rugged, good-looking) owner of the house has arrived unexpectedly to claim his domain. His name is Nick, he’s Australian and a famous novelist, and she wonders what he is doing buying a house in rural France! She has consternation over the lack of electricity and furniture; he has consternation over being swindled during the house transaction by the previous owner (who made off with all the furniture and left the llamas). He is also fuming that both the llamas and their pet-sitter are apparently staying for the duration of the holiday. Their shared frustration slowly turns to amusement and joint problem solving. But before that lovely transformation can happen, they both need coffee and food, and they quite literally trudge to town, but not exactly together:

    "I’d imagined we have a companionable chat as we walked-cum-waded to the village, I was soon disabused. Nick strode on ahead leaving me to follow in his wake. It made me feel like King Wenceslas’s page, only the king in our case didn’t have the philanthropic intentions of the original. …
    I took my mind off my annoyance with Nick and the physical effort of the journey by singing Christmas carols to myself, changing the words of some of them to make them more apt. The chorus of ‘Deck The Halls’ became 'Fa-la-llama-la, la-llama-la,' and the first verse of ‘We Three Kings’ became 'We three Kings of Les Veragnes are / Taking your furniture off in our car / Leaving you llamas and plenty of dramas / We’ll be spending your cash in a bar.'”

    When they return, Noelle and Nick have a more pressing crisis than their own comfort. One of the llamas, Gabrielle, is very pregnant and has decided to deliver early. Noelle discovers her lying down in the stable with two little hoofs already emerging! But something seems to be wrong. The rest of the baby is not emerging along with them and the delivery seems to be taking too long, causing Gabrielle more distress. Good thing that Noelle read up on the care and feeding of llamas before she left her home in the UK. Midwifing a llama, however, was going into new uncharted territory. Thankfully, Nick was willing to assist this time, and the result was a spindly llama cria (what llama babies are called), which they named Sir Winter. This whole episode is tense and fascinating and so engenders vicarious llama love–even in someone like me, who has no pets–that I recommend not missing it.

    Another challenge for Noelle and Nick arises when they find out that the former owners of the house had promised that one of the llamas, Holly, would appear in the nearby town’s church Christmas pageant. Noelle is determined to make good on this promise and Nick is increasingly determined to stay close to Noelle. But first, which one is Holly? And how does one convince a llama to take a long, nocturnal walk to church? Even if these mysteries can be solved, they know that nothing is really “nearby” in thickly blanketed snow, and this episode has many ankle-twisting turns. Fa-La-Lhama-La really breaks out in the “comedy” part of romantic comedy, when Holly does her star turn in the nativity scene. The fictional audience was laughing, and I heard myself laughing too!

    Throughout the story, Nick has seemed like the kind who bottles up emotions, but his real reasons for coming to France show otherwise. Apparently, under that rough exterior, there is a lot of love waiting to come out for a family he never knew, for the right woman–even for llamas! This story was hugely enjoyable, perfect for Christmas reading, and a treasure trove of appealing llama lore.
    Note: I received this book free of charge from the author.
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  • SJW
    5.0 out of 5 stars A fab read with lots of llama fun
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 21, 2020
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    I enjoyed reading this book. The llamas were great supporting actors - even the stars of the show at times. The developing friendship between Noelle and Nick is fab. They bounce off each other well, bringing humorous moments, only upstaged by the llamas. It's a wonderful read at any time of the year, but especially Christmas.
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  • Dragonfinch
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely Christmas romcom
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2016
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    Nice and charming read for your holidays. I loved llama descriptions so much, and the main characters were so likeable. Highly recommend it
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