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    Christmas in London: A Novel
    Christmas in London: A Novel
    Christmas in London: A Novel
    Audiobook7 hours

    Christmas in London: A Novel

    Written by Anita Hughes

    Narrated by Caroline Slaughter

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “Reading Christmas in London you’ll feel magically transported!" — Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of A Lowcountry Christmas

    Set during London's most festive time of year and filled with delicious food Anita Hughes' Christmas in London is about love and friendship, and the season's most important lesson: learning how to ask for and give forgiveness.

    It’s a week before Christmas and Louisa Graham is working twelve hour shifts at a bakery on Manhattan's Lower East Side. When a young cooking show assistant comes in from the rain and begs to buy all the cinnamon rolls on her tray, she doesn’t know what to do. Louisa is just the baker, and they aren't hers to sell. But the show burned the rolls they were supposed to film that day; so she agrees.

    The next morning, Louisa finds out that her cinnamon rolls were a hit, but the star of the show was allergic, and the whole crew is supposed to leave for London that afternoon. They want Louisa to step in for their annual Christmas Eve Dinner TV special at Claridge's. It’s a great opportunity, and Digby Bunting, Louisa’s famous baking idol, will be there. Even if he does seem more interested in her than her food.

    And then there’s Kate, the show's beautiful producer. On their first day in London she runs into the skinny boy she jilted at St. Andrew's in Scotland ten years ago. Now he’s a handsome, brilliant mathematician, and newly divorced. Their familiar spark is still there, but so is the scar of how they left things. Kate and Louisa are busy preparing for the show, but old and new flames are complicating their work.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 30, 2018
    ISBN9781250228451
    Christmas in London: A Novel
    Author

    Anita Hughes

    ANITA HUGHES is the author of Rome in Love (adapted into a Hallmark movie in 2019), and Christmas in Vermont (adapted into a Lifetime movie in 2019). She is also the author of Market Street, Lake Como, Santorini Sunsets, Christmas in Paris, Monarch Beach, and other titles. She attended UC Berkeley's Masters in Creative Writing Program, and lives in Dana Point, California.

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    • 1/5
      A truly terrible book. I can’t even begin to say how bad it is! The overuse of superlatives, the obsession with white dinner jackets...and if I ever hear the word or see a croquembouche ever again, my head will probably explode.

      Seriously though, don’t waste your time.
    • 2/5
      I love Christmas and Hallmark but this novel falls short. In fact, it's bad. The male characters continuously belittle, distrust, and mansplane to the women. The worse part is that the women continuously are convinced that any miscommunication or mistake and their fault. The men are always right. I hate PC culture, but this is beyond that. C'mon, I want a story with 2 people who work as a team and have strength that list one another. I'm this story, the men are always right, and the women are portrayed as emotional and hysterical.
    • 4/5
      The setting and holiday details are just what I like in a Christmas novel. The writing is only OK and the romantic plot is sometimes exasperating but I found it to be a pleasant diversion for this time of year.