A Merry Little Christmas by Julia Williams has to get top
marks from me for the traditional festive cover, a snow covered setting with a
family singing carols around the tree and yes a nice sprinkling of glitter in
the title, oooooooo I am looking forward to this one!
With four children, a Christmas cookbook to write, and her mum suffering from dementia, Cat Tinsall has plenty to juggle. When her eldest daughter, Mel, starts going off the rails, Cat has even more on her plate.
Pippa Holliday adores her family, although often finds her hands full. When Dan is involved in a terrible accident, Pippa’s world is suddenly turned upside down.
Balancing her job as a school teacher with twins and her step-son Steven isn’t easy for Marianne North. With her husband’s ex causing trouble, life is getting even trickier. As Cat, Pippa and Marianne help each other through a difficult year, they’re all hoping for a much brighter Christmas.
I adored all the storylines surrounding each of the
characters and the author manages to bring all the characters together so that
their stories come together and each of the characters support each other which
shows the solidarity of the friendship between Pippa, Marianne and Kat. The
relationship between these characters seemed so natural.
Many day to day challenges are focused on in this book from
budget cuts and how they have an effect on families, to the challenging demands
disabilities have on loved one’s. There is also another situation regarding Cat’s
daughter Mel which I can not mention as it would be a spoiler alert, but the
way the author manages to show us both Cat and Mel’s feelings on the matter was
very realistic and well written.
Julia Williams does bring us a little festive read but she
also managed to bring a tear to my eye on a couple occasions but particularly
on page 264 so be aware.
I didn’t realise that A Merry Little Christmas was a sequel
and personally I didn’t have a problem reading it as a stand alone boo, I did
find it took a little while to get used to who was who which maybe had I read
the first book I may have found it easier to tell the characters apart easier
but I still thoroughly enjoyed this book anyway!
This is one of my favourite Christmas books this year and
one I highly recommend I may even treat myself to Last Christmas if I have
pennies left at the end of the month just to meet the characters again!
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Festive Feel
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