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Maureen Nevin
Make My Christmas
Make My Christmas
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Enjoy "Make My Christmas" -- an original novella of the Festive Season for under $3 (Just $2.99) - a huge deal for 20,257 words!
As we meet our heroine a quiet but industrious snowfall is depositing miniature spires beside the sienna-clay chimney tops of West Kensington, London. Charlotte O'Rourke is fact-checking an article about complex financial vehicles that in another decade or so will take down the global economy. For now though she is about to fax a finely-crafted article to a no-doubt grateful editor in New York, a destination toward which she will soon fly as well. Then a short car ride to picturesque Central New Jersey and love, warmth, acceptance, a crackling fire in the hearth... Wait, who's fairy tale vision is this?
Why, Charlotte's. After living mostly alone, an ocean away from her rosy-cheeked daughters and cupie doll granddaughter, their images shimmer in her mind's eye like a crystallized fantasy, which it is of course. But for now let's let her dream a while longer. She's packed Christmas puddings to flame and crackers to snap open. Her heart leaps about in her chest. This visit is going to be a blending of Old World and New -- a Capra movie come to life – if she just doesn't miss the plane...
I excerpted "Make My Christmas" from my novel in progress, Expat, so that people traveling home for a visit could read about another family loaded down with steamer trunks of resentment and elephantine memories just bursting to be exhumed. I kept the story to Flying Book length, so readers can finish it in the time it takes to fly cross-country or shore-to-shore. Check the reviews to see how sharing the holidays with a family even more dysfunctional, more filled with angst and emotional turmoil than your own has lifted the spirits of many.
My holiday wish for you is that after sitting down with the O'Rourkes you'll see anew the hilarious side of your own familial encounters.
Your thoughts and reviews are much appreciated.
Happy Holidays!!
As we meet our heroine a quiet but industrious snowfall is depositing miniature spires beside the sienna-clay chimney tops of West Kensington, London. Charlotte O'Rourke is fact-checking an article about complex financial vehicles that in another decade or so will take down the global economy. For now though she is about to fax a finely-crafted article to a no-doubt grateful editor in New York, a destination toward which she will soon fly as well. Then a short car ride to picturesque Central New Jersey and love, warmth, acceptance, a crackling fire in the hearth... Wait, who's fairy tale vision is this?
Why, Charlotte's. After living mostly alone, an ocean away from her rosy-cheeked daughters and cupie doll granddaughter, their images shimmer in her mind's eye like a crystallized fantasy, which it is of course. But for now let's let her dream a while longer. She's packed Christmas puddings to flame and crackers to snap open. Her heart leaps about in her chest. This visit is going to be a blending of Old World and New -- a Capra movie come to life – if she just doesn't miss the plane...
I excerpted "Make My Christmas" from my novel in progress, Expat, so that people traveling home for a visit could read about another family loaded down with steamer trunks of resentment and elephantine memories just bursting to be exhumed. I kept the story to Flying Book length, so readers can finish it in the time it takes to fly cross-country or shore-to-shore. Check the reviews to see how sharing the holidays with a family even more dysfunctional, more filled with angst and emotional turmoil than your own has lifted the spirits of many.
My holiday wish for you is that after sitting down with the O'Rourkes you'll see anew the hilarious side of your own familial encounters.
Your thoughts and reviews are much appreciated.
Happy Holidays!!
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