One Christmas Morning
Release Date: October 17, 2023
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Women's Fiction
For fans of The Midnight Library and One Day in December who love a dash of Dickensian magic, One Christmas Morning is a heartwarming debut novel about a woman’s self-discovery, the strength found in friendship, and the promise of second chances.
Eva has spent the past three years burying herself in her work, trying to forget the heartbreaking events of the Christmas that ripped her world apart. And this year, on the eve of her shop launch, the last thing Eva wants is to drive to the wild moors of Cornwall to attend her friends Hallie and Kian’s Christmas party. But at her husband James’ insistence, here they are. Worse still, Hallie announces she is pregnant, bringing Eva’s pain to the surface.
Overwhelmed by her friend’s news and the bittersweet memories of past Christmases, Eva tries to sneak back to London in the middle of the night. But as the clock strikes midnight, she is visited by the ghost of her beloved grandmother. Gran tells Eva that if she doesn’t face her ghosts head-on and stop shutting out her loved ones, she risks losing them all forever.
When Eva wakes on Christmas morning, she finds herself living not her own life, but that of her hardworking assistant, Diana, whose overflowing inbox isn’t the only secret she’s been keeping. The next day, she wakes on Christmas morning again, this time in the body of Hallie’s sister, Natalie. As Eva lives Christmas Day again and again through the perspectives of her friends, she is offered a glimpse into the lives of those she has been pushing away. With each Christmas Day comes a new lesson—and an insight into the secrets and struggles her loved ones have been hiding. To move forward, Eva must let go of the past. But is it too late to fix her future?
Rachel Greenlaw
Rachel Greenlaw is the author of ONE CHRISTMAS MORNING and the COMPASS AND BLADE trilogy. She lives on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, where you'll find her wandering the white sand beaches, searching for cowrie shells and writing her next story.
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Christmas is time Eva would rather forget, every year when it rolls around it just becomes a painful memory in a time in her life that she doesn't want to think about or deal with. This year her friends have invited them to their Christmas party, it's a party that Eva would rather skip, but attends at her husband's urging. Once there her friend decides to share her good news and to Eva it's anything but, and her fight or flight urge kicks in and she slips out the door for some fresh air... but this bit of fresh air comes with quite a surprise, a visit from a woman she hasn't seen in a few years. Her beloved dead grandmother...
One Christmas Morning is an emotional page-turner that will weigh your heart down at times, but I promise it will find some reprieve before the last page comes. As we meet our heroine it is easy to see that things in her life are not going as well as they could or should be, her marriage is fragile, her new business has become an excuse not to fully live and she has some past trauma that weighs very heavily on her. The woman is in need of a little happy for sure. Then she gets a ghostly visit from a treasured friend and that friend reminds her of what is important, of the life she should be living, and gives her a second chance of sorts to find it. It's an captivating and emotional journey that'll instill hope and maybe even serve as a reminder of what is truly important in life.
I enjoyed this one, the storyline was captivating and unique, the words heartfelt and the characters were easy to connect to, highly recommend!
I requested an advanced copy of this title from the publisher and I am voluntarily leaving my honest and unbiased opinion.
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