Book Review: ‘Christmas Is All Around: A Novel’ By Martha Waters

by | Oct 9, 2024 | Books | 0 comments


The book is in stores on Tuesday, October 22nd from Atria. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3YrtXO9

Charlotte Lane, as a child, starred in a Christmas movie, titled Christmas, Truly and it became a cult hit, played every year, with passionate fans. Now today a reboot is talked about and Charlotte wants nothing to do with it and it has been scrapped. She’s not an actress, but an artist, with a very successful business. When word gets out to the fans, she is harassed online and decides that this Christmas, a holiday she doesn’t like, she will go to London to visit her sister and her baby niece. On a visit to a place called Eden Priory, to watch a lighting, she realizes it was the house where part of her movie was filmed years ago, and the owners promote that face, and someone spots her there. When she tries to hide, she runs into Graham, whose family owns the house, and it begins a friendship, a job offer and a romance between the two, not something either of them was looking for. Each has issues from the past they must face and Charlotte soon learns a secret about him, and she questions their whole relationship and it will take grand gesture to fix things. This is a fun, Christmas rom-com, that hits all the right notes. Watching these two fall in love is a Christmas miracle.