In this lovely book we have three friend that are dreading Chirstmas for three different ways ......
we meet Cat a mother, wife, Tv cook, caretaker and grandmother her life is busy . Her Tv career has taken a step back lately and spending more and more time with Lou Lou her granddaughter who came into this world a two Christmases ago....
Cat is best friends with Pippa and Marianne who all live I a lovely village called Hope Chirstmas .
Pippa and Dan her soon to be ex husband own a farm that over looks the wonderful woods that are in the village right next to them is Marianne and Gabriel farm. Pippa and Dan have three children two boys and a girl Lucy who has Cerebal Pulsey and is wheelchair bound Pippa is also her full time carer. Last year Dan and an accident falling out of a tree with left him a different person so he decided that Pippa would better off without him and moved out of the family home but still shared the workload and running of the farm with her this left her heartbroken but found that she could not do this emotionally and meet Richard but always kept him at arms length , but Richard was planning they future .......
Marianne is married to Gabriel they have two twins under three and Stepthen from Gabriel first marriage , but events take they faith out of they hands has Eve , Gabriel's ex wife is taken ill and Gabriel feels he needs step up and help her out so she moves in with them !!!!!!!! This puts a lot of pressure on they marriage to the degree that Marianne takes temping teaching jobs for the extra money and also to escape Eve but the jobs take her miles away from her family ....
Through out this book all the friends comes together in the time of need to fight off developers taking down the woods and building a Spa resort that will kill off they lively hood and they children's future .
What I also like about they book through out they are diary enteritis from Dan his therapist recommending writing down his feelings and how he was going to deal with things and seeing what a mistake letting Pippa go, but do they get back together, does Cat get her TV career but on track and does Marianne get her left back and does there free friends save the Woods from evil developers while you will just have to read the book you will not be disappointed.
