Since November 2009Book Review: Twelve Days of Christmas by Trisha Ashley
Posted on Friday, December 3rd, 2010 by Chloe
Christmas has recently been a sad time for Holly Brown. Her beloved husband Dan died at Christmas after falling into a frozen lake, and therefore Holly has decided she doesn’t actually want to celebrate the festive season anymore. So when she gets a call from her house-sitting boss about a remote house in the middle of nowhere for the Christmas period, Holly jumps at the chance of being alone so she can ignore it altogether. However, when she gets there she discovers that the home of the Martland family isn’t as deserted as she thought, and that are quite a welcoming family who like to get involved with their guests. Couple that with Holly’s gran’s diaries that she is reading, and Holly doesn’t have the quiet festive season that she anticipated… not to mention the fact that it seems Holly has more of a link to the Martland’s than she ever could have imagined. Will Holly finally be able to enjoy the Twelve Days of Christmas?
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Caroline was pretty sure she had made the right decision when she ended her engagement, and comes out of the relationship she has been in since she was at school. She knows she has hurt her ex but realised that to be happy, she had to be free to do what she wants. However, Caroline’s plans are scuppered when her 17 year old half sister Lexi turns up on her doorstep and announces that she has come to stay for the summer. Caroline doesn’t know what to do with a 17 year old, and so tries her best to make it work with Lexi despite the upheaval in her own life. She knows she has to make some decisions about the direction of her life, and whether her on/off relationship with married lover Toby will last, whether she will ever find happiness with Mr Right despite her family’s less than successful rate with relationships, and whether a 17 year old has anything to teach her about living?
Annie Delaney just wants to be happy. She wants a big white wedding, a family and a happily ever after, but she’s suer that isn’t what she is going to get with her current boyfriend Pearse. He seems more interested in the running of his restaurant than he is paying Annie any attention, and she’s had enough. When she wakes up one morning with another man in her bed, she thinks fate is trying to tell her something and decides that maybe what her and Pearse have just isn’t perfect after all. Annie’s best friend Ffion is also heading down the aisle with her Mr Right, making Annie realise what she wants, but when things start to unravel, can Annie hold it together for Ffion and find her own perfect ending too?
Maggie Storm is really fed up her life. Her husband Dave only ever speaks to her when he wants a cup of tea or the sitting room to be hoovered, and her son Dean isn’t the model child either. She works as a cleaner for families who make her feel worthless, and she doesn’t know why she puts up with it. When she meets Daryl by chance at a neighbour’s house, Maggie gets a glimpse of what it could be like to be loved properly, but something is holding her back. Maggie made a New Year’s Resolution to hold back on what she wants and what she thinks, and she doesn’t want to break it just yet.
Sienna Starr is grateful for what being the daughter of burlesque star Tyger Starr brings her, but also wants to break out on her own. She loves being a chorus girl in a dancing show, but is determined to be a star in her own right, and shine as the lead dancer. Unfortunately, Sienna seems to have made an enemy of the show’s leading lady Brandy Alexander, and she’s determined to make Sienna’s life hell, not wanting her to take any shine off Brandy herself. However, when someone from Brandy’s past shows up and threatens to wreck everything she has worked hard for, how far will Brandy go to protect herself? Will Sienna be able to reach her dreams of being a leading lady herself, and sort of her own personal demons with boyfriend Max too? When does too much ambition become a bad thing?
Charlotte Williams pretty much has it all. Her musician father’s success means that Charlotte wants for nothing, and she has a close group of friends who she enjoys going out with and having fun regularly. But when her father is arrested for a huge fraud case, Charlotte finds that her world has started to collapse around her. She’s got no money, no family and no one to look after her. She decides to flee to New Orleans and the home of her former Nanny, the only place she knows she will feel safe from the paparazzi. She begins to work for the first time in her life, and also reignites her own love for music and singing, but there is someone out there determined to make Charlotte pay for what her father has done to hundreds of people. Can Charlotte escape the madman before he gets to her?
