Dimensions
136 x 205 x 31mm
Meet two women with two totally different approaches to the festive season. First there's Beth -- it's only September and already she has performance anxiety. Not surprising when she has agreed to lay on the annual Christmas Eve village bash -- the piece de resistance of her husband's former wife -- not to mention having to host Christmas for his difficult offspring.
New to this frenzied build-up to the festivities, Beth begins to lose sight of what it all means. To her the Christmas lights are looking more like the headlamps of an oncoming train. Then there's Carol, a glamorous magazine editor who put her aspirational Christmas issue to bed sometime in July and is so involved in finding a scoop to save her ailing magazine that she fails to notice the impending festive rush.
Panicked and wracked with guilt, she determines to make it a picture perfect time for her little boy and opting for convenience books a lovely-sounding cottage in a quaint village. But even the best laid plans have a habit of unravelling and no plan at all is a recipe for disaster. So when these two Christmases collide, it looks like it's going to be anything but goodwill toward men.
