One Christmas Morning (Swell Valley Series Short Story)

by Tilly Bagshawe

A Christmas treat from best-selling author Tilly Bagshawe

Christmas is not the time to get your heart broken…

Dumped by the love of her life and in need of some time to recover, screenwriter Laura Tiverton retreats to the idyllic village of Fittlescombe where she used to spend time as a girl. Maybe lending her expertise to the annual nativity play will be just what she needs.

Village heart-throb and the nativity’s leading man, Gabe Baxter, has always been jealous of Laura. And now she’s back – beautiful, bossy, and driving him insane.

When the hotly-anticipated Christmas Ball comes around Laura can’t quite believe her luck when she gets a date with the sexy playwright Daniel Smart. Perhaps it’s going to be a merry Christmas after all. But when the night doesn’t go to plan, and the day of the nativity dawns, Laura can’t imagine showing her face in the village again.

On the night before Christmas, who will be able to persuade her that the show must go on?

• ISBN13: 9780008121174
• Publish Date: 6 November 2014 (first published 6 December 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 96
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

[Leah]

With Christmas right around the corner there are an abundance of Christmas e-book short stories around. So far I’ve read 99% of them. I love Tilly Bagshawe’s novels so when I saw she was releasing a £1.99 short story called One Christmas Morning, I was thrilled and ordered it immediately. I thought the price was a tad steep but after reading the novel, I feel it was fully worth of its price, as it’s more like a novella than a short story, and it was excellent.

One Christmas Morning is set in the idyllic-sounding village of Fittlescombe, as Laura Tiverton finds herself staying there over Christmas after her life in London exploded spectacularly. She’s found herself directing the annual nativity play, whilst trying to ignore the annoying Gabe Baxter, who is the leading man. When old flame Daniel Smart re-appears, Laura’s Christmas is suddenly looking a lot brighter than it did, but when things go wrong yet again, Laura begins to wonder if her Christmas is cursed…

I thought One Christmas Morning was one of the most engaging novellas I’ve ever read. It was just a fabulous read. Tilly just pulled me entirely in to the world of Laura and the little village of Fittlescombe. In fact, I’m quite tempted to beg Tilly to write a full-length novel featuring Laura and Gabe and co., as they were excellent characters, even though I only knew them for 100 or so pages. Bagshawe is one of the best Chick Lit writers out there, and always manages to pull me in to her novels, and I fully recommend One Christmas Morning, it was worth every single penny I spent on it, and I absolutely adored it.