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Christmas in London

A Novel

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Christmas in London

By: Anita Hughes
Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter
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“Reading Christmas in London you’ll feel magically transported!" (Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times best-selling author of A Lowcountry Christmas)

Set during London's most festive time of year and filled with delicious food, Anita Hughes' Christmas in London is about love and friendship, and the season's most important lesson: learning how to ask for and give forgiveness.

It’s a week before Christmas, and Louisa Graham is working 12-hour shifts at a bakery on Manhattan's Lower East Side. When a young cooking show assistant comes in from the rain and begs to buy all the cinnamon rolls on her tray, she doesn’t know what to do. Louisa is just the baker, and they aren't hers to sell. But the show burned the rolls they were supposed to film that day; so she agrees.

The next morning, Louisa finds out that her cinnamon rolls were a hit, but the star of the show was allergic, and the whole crew is supposed to leave for London that afternoon. They want Louisa to step in for their annual Christmas Eve Dinner TV special at Claridge's. It’s a great opportunity, and Digby Bunting, Louisa’s famous baking idol, will be there. Even if he does seem more interested in her than her food. And then there’s Kate, the show's beautiful producer.

On their first day in London she runs into the skinny boy she jilted at St. Andrew's in Scotland 10 years ago. Now he’s a handsome, brilliant mathematician, and newly divorced. Their familiar spark is still there, but so is the scar of how they left things. Kate and Louisa are busy preparing for the show, but old and new flames are complicating their work.

©2017 Anita Hughes (P)2018 Macmillan Audio
Fiction Genre Fiction Holidays Women's Fiction Celebration Winter Christmas England Romance
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I truly disliked all the male characters in this story. Every time things didn’t go their way, they stormed off & pouted like crybabies. The story itself is okay, but there was a LOT of brand name dropping which became tiresome. Overall, it’s not a book I would recommend. I’m sad I wasted a credit on it

All Male Characters Are Crybabies

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Great food descriptions and traveling highlights of real destinations. Louisa was so immature it was hard to like her. Kate was cool. Enjoyable curl up under a Christmas blanket and get lost in London luxury book

This book will make you hungry!

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I like the Christmas fairytale aspects of this novel. It's light and romantic with wonderful descriptions of London at Christmas. The narrator, however, is a different story. Her frequent mispronunciations--even of common words like 'valet'--are incredibly grating and tell me that the narrator is a non-reader. No idea how a producer could reliably check for this ahead of time, but I notice it in more and more audiobooks.....

Narrator needs help--or a different job

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The story is sweet, and sentimental. If you're an Anglophile you will really enjoy the fairytale version the author paints of London's beauty at Christmas time. Although the main character is just a bit too naive to be real, she is devoted to attaining her hearts

Narrator needs to learn the language.

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It was a great holiday lift I really enjoyed it and look forward to the others next holiday season.

Warm and Sweet

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I downloaded this book a few days before Christmas after finishing another Christmas novel (The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig - highly recommend to anyone who's a fan of Jane Austen or the Bridgerton series). This book was a bit disappointing. I found the main character, Louisa, to be annoying and unlikable. I couldn't understand why the love interest fell in love with her. I found myself eager to get to the Kate frames because being in Kate's more mature, level head was more bearable (though her love interest, Trevor, is both pushy and wishy washy). There are way too many similes in the dialogue - people just don't talk like that.

Meh

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This book had the most annoying and immature characters. The experiences were trite and the reader mispronounces some words. I found the whole thing tiresome.

Annoying characters

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I think she just looked up a list of British food without knowing what they were. If you’re going to write about a chef of any sort a little research is required. I couldn’t finish it was just so bad.

Horribly written, knows nothing about food.

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