Twelve Days of Christmas (2010) (Avon)Trisha Ashley
Grade: C
Genre: chick lit
Sex scenes: super mild
Source: own
Lancashire: (1) Sweet Nothings, (2) A Winter's Tale, (3) Wedding Tiers, (4) Chocolate Wishes, (5) Twelve Days of Christmas
TBR RBC 2015: Free Square
Brought up by her Strange Baptist
grandmother, Holly didn’t celebrate Christmas in its modern, commercial sense
until she married her husband, Alan. When he died in a tragic accident not long
before the festive holidays, Holly reverted to her old ways. Now, she’s a chef
in the summer months, catering for week-long house parties, and a house sitter
in the winter, choosing to spend her holidays in solitude caring for other
peoples’ houses instead of forcing a smile with her family-in-law. This Christmas,
Holly is faced with just that depressing prospect until a last-minute
house-sitting job falls in her lap. But what starts as a straightforward task
in looking after a house and its resident dog, horse and goat, turns into a
fully-fledged family-orientated house party with its requisite unwanted guests
alongside the bosom of the family as Holly takes on the responsibility for
catering to a family she barely knows, but quickly comes to love as her own …
