![]() In this chapter, the reality of the secret doings of Miss Boston and her friends is that they really are witches, but unlike in Never the Bride, this revelation is only superficially humorous. The question which lurks gleefully in both this chapter and in Never the Bride is this: just what do elderly ladies get up to together over tea and scones? In Never the Bride, the reveal is that Brenda and Effie are illicit detectives of the paranormal blue rinsed saviours of the human race. ![]() It was my love for The Whitby Witches which lead me to Never the Bride, and the subplot with Miss Boston and her friends which begins here is a perfect miniature Brenda and Effie mystery. In this post I feel I absolutely must make passing reference to Paul Magrs’ Never the Bride, the first book of the ‘Brenda and Effie’ mysteries, which follows the Whitby-based paranormal escapades of a pair of meddling old dears who are themselves not all they seem. That curling, many-segmented, ancient remnant of Britain’s prehistoric past has become deeply connected to everything that Robin’s Whitby is about, and they’ll turn up time and time again in the chapters ahead. ![]() ‘You’re nothing but a load of old witches!’Īufwader’s Thoughts: Oh, ammonites! To choose a single, all-encompassing symbol for every Whitby book Mr Jarvis has ever written (or will ever write) is to choose the ammonite. ![]()
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