Review: A Fantastic Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2013
This is a lovely romantic Christmas story that you can curl up in your favourite place with your favourite tipple and something lovely to pop in your mouth every now and again and get lost in the story.Single mum Catherine and her five year old daughter are living in a small flat while Catherine works in a post office. She finds a 40 year old lost love letter and Catherine tracks down the recipient and delivers it, then this lovely story goes from strength to strength from there on in.Faith perfectly captures the atmosphere of a small town in England, she captures the nostalgia of wonderful wintry weather as she leads up to and including Christmas day, she captures a child's joy of Christmas and of course she captures the emotions of our lovely single mum who has to overcome heart ache caused by two men and her own parents.Romantic stories by default are formulaic but it is how you treat this formula that makes a good read and Faith has certainly done that with this book.I would love to see this story made into one of those Christmas films that are shown on the TV around Christmas time; in fact it would be better than some of the ones I've watched previously.