Eve Glace - co-owner of the theme park Winterworld - is having a baby and her due date is a perfectly timed 25th December. And she’s decided that she and her husband Jacques should renew their wedding vows with all the pomp that was missing the first time. But growing problems at Winterworld keep distracting them …
Annie Pandoro and her husband Joe own a small Christmas cracker factory, and are well set up and happy together despite life never blessing them with a much-wanted child. But when Annie finds that the changes happening to her body aren’t typical of the menopause but pregnancy, her joy is uncontainable.
Palma Collins has agreed to act as a surrogate, hoping the money will get her out of the gutter in which she finds herself. But when the couple she is helping split up, is she going to be left carrying a baby she never intended to keep?
Annie, Palma and Eve all meet at the ‘Christmas Pudding Club’, a new directive started by a forward-thinking young doctor to help mums-to-be mingle and share their pregnancy journeys. Will this group help each other to find love, contentment and peace as Christmas approaches?
Annie Pandoro and her husband Joe own a small Christmas cracker factory, and are well set up and happy together despite life never blessing them with a much-wanted child. But when Annie finds that the changes happening to her body aren’t typical of the menopause but pregnancy, her joy is uncontainable.
Palma Collins has agreed to act as a surrogate, hoping the money will get her out of the gutter in which she finds herself. But when the couple she is helping split up, is she going to be left carrying a baby she never intended to keep?
Annie, Palma and Eve all meet at the ‘Christmas Pudding Club’, a new directive started by a forward-thinking young doctor to help mums-to-be mingle and share their pregnancy journeys. Will this group help each other to find love, contentment and peace as Christmas approaches?
I'll start with the cliche...what a Christmas cracker this is from Milly Johnson!
There - I've got it out the way so we can continue.
Three women from different walks of life, Palma, Eve and Annie all have symptoms of pregnancy, but only of of them believe they possibly could be expecting, and she's the one that has no intentions of having a baby.
The three all find themselves in Dr. Gilhooley's Christmas Pudding Club, a support and friendship group for women expecting Christmas babies, and we follow their trials, joys and tribulations as they go on the ride of their lives.
As usual, Milly has written a beauty. Her characters are so well developed they feel like friends and you soon fall in love with them, and the situations are so beautifully written it feels as though you're experiencing them first hand. I especially loved Palma and was praying for her to have her happy ending and Milly has such a knack of writing pure magic into her stories I knew she'd be in good hands.
I laughed and cried hard through this book, it was the perfect read to get me into the festive mood. It also holds a very special place in my heart as I too am a Christmas mummy, having my baby on Christmas Day, 2000. And Christmas has never been the same in our household since.
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