About Skipping Christmas in Holly Crescent : A heart-warming feel-good tale to cosy up with this winter
Free on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day! A short, uplifting, and happy Christmas story set in England – Family, friendships, fun, and romance.
Pour yourself a cup of tea, settle down in front of the fire, and join Mary and Archie Nugent, at number nine Holly Crescent, as they skip Christmas this year.
Their three grown-up children are all busy with their own plans for Christmas Day – Richard’s taken his young wife away on holiday, Susan’s busy with her new boyfriend, and Helen’s life is one big whirl of parties and lunches out.
But are they all as perfectly happy as their parents believe them to be?
Feeling unwanted and a little lonely, Mary and Archie convince themselves that it will be best to skip the whole madness of Christmas and spend a quiet day at home together. No dragging out the old Christmas tree and putting up decorations, or rushing around the crowded shops for last-minute shopping.
But the best-laid plans can have a way of going wrong, so will the couple find that skipping Christmas is not as easy as it sounds? Especially with an unexpected arrival, by taxi, on their doorstep, and with Mary’s inability to stop herself from inviting lonely strangers and neighbours, new and old, into their home…
As waifs and strays, including a puppy, gather in their home, new friendships are made, stories are shared, and drama comes knocking at their door, more than once. And amidst the happy chaos, there might just be love in the air, quite a sprinkling of it…
Mary’s and Archie’s plan of skipping Christmas might not have turned out quite as they’d planned, but maybe, in the end, it turned out to be exactly what Christmas is all about.
Sometimes the spirit of Christmas has a way of working its magic even if you’re not looking for it.
The perfect uplifting festive read, promising trials and tribulation, tears and laughter, and love and friendship, with a sprinkling of snowfall, humour, and seasonal romance.
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Author Bio:
Linzi Carlisle grew up in Dartford, Kent, in the UK, before moving to Africa, where she met her husband. They spent thirteen memorable years in Chingola, Zambia, and five years enjoying the many wines of the Western Cape while they ran their Winelands guest house, before settling in the Garden Route in South Africa. She and her husband live in the beautiful town of George, nestled between the Outeniqua Mountains and the Indian Ocean. They have been the proud parents of many beloved children of the four-legged variety over the years, these being, currently, two beautiful rescue cats.