Followers of my blog will know two things: 1) My Christmas countdown is underway, whoop whoop! 2) I love books by Rosie Green. So, what better than to have Rosie stop by, to talk about the fact she has TWO fabulous festive reads out this season?
Welcome to my blog Rosie. Oh my goodness, two Christmas books, I feel spoilt for choice! To help me decide which to read first, I’d love to know what your characters will be up to this Christmas…
Ooh, that would be telling! Go on, you know you want to 🙂
A happy Christmas definitely isn’t on the cards in the opening chapters of Snowflakes over Moondance Cottage, what with Jess, the main character, having to put up with a surly (but very fit) builder knocking down walls in her precious old family home. Her mum is acting strangely and her sister seems to have a mysterious agenda of her own. Recent family Christmases have been sad and tinged with tragedy. But maybe this year, the magic of Christmas will heal old wounds and bring the family the very best gift of all…
In A Winter Wedding at the Little Duck Pond Cafe, the villagers are preparing to celebrate with Ellie and Zak at gorgeous Brambleberry Manor – but will everything go according to plan? It has to be a happy Christmas, hasn’t it?
I love the sound of the fit builder 😉 and I am desperate for Ellie and Zak to finally make it up the aisle. Maybe the blurbs will help me decide:
Snowflakes over Moondance Cottage
When Jess Rigby lost her dad, the family coped in different ways, alone in their grief. Now, her mum seems to be going off the rails and her sister, Isla, who moved to France, is now back and determined to get the old family home on the market. But the last thing Jess wants this Christmas is for renovations to start on the house. It’s sure to stir up old memories she’s desperate to forget. And to make things worse, Isla seems to have hired the most obnoxious builder in the world to do the work. Jess could forget the fact that woman seem to be putty in his hands. But what she finds harder to ignore is the frisson she gets every time she squeezes past him in the mess that is now their beloved family home! Soon, the house begins to give up its secrets, some of them shocking. Can the family finally start talking and find a way to move on from the past this Christmas?
A Winter Wedding at the Little Duck Pond Cafe
With Zak and Ellie’s wedding day approaching, excitement is spilling over in the village of Sunnybrook, especially among the Little Duck Pond Café crew. Ellie is over the moon with her romantic surprise wedding gift from Zak, and Madison is promising to organise a hen party to remember. Everyone has high hopes for a magical Christmas Eve wedding celebration at gorgeous Brambleberry Manor. (Even Maisie-Moo has a sparkling new outfit.) What could possibly go wrong?
Sometimes, even the best-laid plans can end in disaster. And with the journey to the altar turning out to be rockier than expected, it’s going to take nothing short of a Christmas miracle to ensure a happy ending . . .
Well that’s decided … I’ll just have to dive straight in to both!
As part of my Christmas countdown, I am also asking authors what they will be up to this festive season, where will you be spending your Christmas?
At home, as always. I wouldn’t really want to be anywhere else! I suppose it’s a legacy from when my son was little and it was lovely for him to wake up to Christmas and all the excitement in his own house. He’s eighteen now but Christmas Eve still feels as sprinkled with magic as it did back then. Our festivities begin on the 24th. Relatives arrive in the morning and I’ll begin preparing turkey and all the trimmings in the afternoon. We have our Christmas dinner that night, which I love because it means that by the time Christmas Day dawns, I’ve done all the hard work and I can spend the big day itself just relaxing and eating chocolate. A recipe for total bliss in my opinion.
That’s a great idea! Finally, before you go, I’d love you to answer five quick questions from my festive selection:
Christmas jumper or posh frock? Christmas jumper
Real or artificial Christmas tree? Real
Favourite Christmas film? The Holiday
Singing a Christmas carol or bopping along to a Christmas classic? Christmas classic
Multi-coloured decs or co-ordinated Christmas tree? Multi-coloured!
Now I wish I’d asked for a pic of the Christmas jumper!
Thank you so much for joining my Christmas countdown and I wish you and your family a wonderful festive season! xx
About the author:
Rosie Green has been scribbling stories ever since she was little. Back then they were rip-roaring adventure tales with a young heroine in perilous danger of falling off a cliff or being tied up by ‘the baddies’. Thankfully, Rosie has moved on somewhat, and now much prefers to write romantic comedies that melt your heart and make you smile, with really not much perilous danger involved at all, unless you count the heroine losing her heart in love.
You can find Rosie on Twitter.
Check out how author Morton S Gray and her characters will be spending Christmas, on my blog on Thursday 14th November. xx
