Christmas has a habit of rearranging our lives just when we have finally got them tidy. These stories find women starting over in snowy cities and seaside cottages, rescuing what is worth keeping, with a surprise guest sometimes proving the best present of all. Perfect reading by the Christmas tree!
Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Bookshop - When the department store closes, Carmen heads for snowy Edinburgh, where her sister has found her a spare room and a struggling little bookshop. Unless she can save it before Christmas, the owner will have to sell.
Katie Fforde, The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories - A stocking full of festive romances. Romy’s French Christmas plans change when she meets Felix, a country-house power cut tests Fenella’s hosting, and a fairy arrives on Christmas Eve for a young man and his small niece and nephew.
Jenny Bayliss, The Winter of Second Chances - Annie Sharpe leaves her restaurant and marriage behind to become caretaker of a creaky beach house on the Kent coast. As she reopens the village’s long-closed seafront café, her husband Max is determined to win her back.
