Coming Home For Christmas: Warm, humorous and completely irresistible!
By (Author) Julia Williams
HarperCollins Publishers
AVON, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
20th October 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Romance
823.92
Paperback
384
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
270g
Warm, humorous and completely irresistible. All you want for Christmas is right here!
Terrifically warm, with lovely, lively characters. Fiona Walker
This story warms you like a cosy cup of cocoa. Closer
These three friends are dreading Christmas
Cat needs to get off the has-been heap and rescue her flagging TV career, but the demands of her extended family are reaching fever pitch and she barely has time to breathe. Meanwhile, Pippa has got too many balls to juggle as a struggling single mum trying to hang on to her family farm. And Mariannes marriage is looking distinctly rocky now her beloved husbands ex is back on the scene.
Happy Christmas Forget it. But Christmas is a time for miracles, and when the villagers learn they must fight for what they love, it becomes clear that there is festive magic in the air.
Suddenly for Cat, Pippa and Marianne, its looking like it might just be a Christmas to remember
Terrifically warm, with lovely, lively characters Fiona Walker
This story warms you like a cosy cup of cocoa Closer
As essential as tinsel and turkey if you want to get into that warm, fuzzy mood for Christmas Closer
Julia Williams was born in London in 1965, the youngest of twins and one of eight children. She attended St Michaels Grammar School, Finchley before studying English at Liverpool University, where she met her husband, Dave, a dentist. They married in 1989. Following university, Julia studied at the London College of Printing, before embarking on a publishing career at Routledge. In 1990, she joined Scholastic Children's Books, where she stayed for eight years. During that time she ran the very successful Point list. Her proudest moment as an editor was editing The Sterkarm Handshake by Susan Price which won the 1998 Guardian Fiction award. In 1998 following the birth of her second daughter, Julia decided to pursue a freelance career. In 1998 following the birth of her second daughter, Julia decided to pursue a freelance career. At the same time she enrolled on a writing course, joined the Romantic Novelist's Association and started writing her first novel. It took her two more years to complete it and get herself an agent, who signed her up the week before the birth of her third daughter. A further six years was to elapse before Julia completed Pastures New, and in the meantime she has also had two picture books published by Evans Publishers, completed two children's novels and self published a book about running the London Marathon. Julia is proud to be a member of the Romantic Novelist's Association and she blogs regularly at "http""//maniacmum.blogspot.com. She has now published ten books and sold over half a million copies of her paperbacks.