A Gift from the Comfort Food Café: Celebrate Christmas in the cosy village of Budbury with the most heartwarming read of 2018!. Debbie Johnson

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СКАЧАТЬ on the beach, and a couple of mums with toddlers wrapped up so well they look like fat eggs you could roll down a hill, and someone who appears to be fossil-hunting. Out of season, quiet, but still stunningly beautiful. In summer, it’s completely different – the café is bustling, the beach is full, the sounds are a blend of squealing kids and the ice cream van’s tune and the chatter and buzz of holiday fun.

      I reluctantly turn away from the view and walk towards the café. It’s after three now, and as I’d suspected, the only people left there are the regulars. I pause and look through the windows. The light outside is dim and grey, so the contrast is stark: the café is vivid and warm and bright, its fairy lights shining, the glass panes slightly steamed up.

      I can see a few tables pulled together to form one big, haphazardly assembled mega-table, and the ladies arranged around it. Cherie has her head thrown back in laughter; Becca has Little Edie on her lap; Zoe has a paperback in her hands, and Willow is doing some kind of mime to entertain them.

      They look perfectly relaxed. Perfectly comfortable. Perfectly terrifying.

      I take a deep breath, and push open the door. They all turn and look at me, and I see Cherie’s eyes widen in surprise. I get that feeling, the one I’m way too familiar with: the feeling that I’ve walked into a room where I’m not welcome. Where I’m interrupting something.

      ‘Come on in then!’ bellows Cherie, waving at me. ‘And don’t let the weather come with you!’

      I nod and shut the door – I hadn’t even noticed I’d been holding it open, as though clinging to the option of running away, back down the hill.

      By the time I’ve crossed the room, Willow has pulled an extra chair over for me, and headed to the kitchen to get me a coffee from the ancient machine. I hear it hiss and spit as I sit down, smiling politely, wondering what on earth I’m going to talk about now I’m here.

      ‘We were just discussing the relative feminist merits of Disney princesses,’ says Zoe, her ginger curls pulled up into a cascade of fire on top of her head.

      ‘Oh … well. Maybe Mulan?’

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