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Christmas Magic
The stories have strong female protagonists who are ready to face the challenges of life. Anniversary Waltz is the story of Felicity who starts dating again to get back at her philandering husband and learns that she enjoys her new love interest. Middle-aged women dumped by husbands for some young "gold digger who would overlook age, male-pattern baldness and paunch for the heady lure of a lucrative milk-carton packaging business and the latest S-Class Mercedes" learn how to move on. None of the stories are boring, rather all have been presented in a saucy manner. Madame Lucia makes an interesting reading, a fairy godmother in the garb of a fortune teller puts right many lives. The book tackles characters like Amazonian Sarah who faces difficulty in finding a date, while her curvy sibling has men drooling. Some stories are replete with humourous incidents as when one of the characters goes for a date and the gentleman runs out of cash after buying the lady two vodkas. It is a girly book with tongue-in-cheek dialogues. Readers can easily place themselves in the shoes of the characters. The writer brings to life a twenty-something single digging into a bucket of ice-cream and watching late-night TV over the weekend due to the lack of a boyfriend. Christmas Magic is about lessons to be learnt when you envy others for what they have and then learn the bitter way to thank for what you have. It is a saga of daily dilemmas and strong women who resolve them. The selfless sibling who takes charge of the entire family is beautifully presented in A Villa by the Sea. Ladies here have a forever-young attitude as they keep their hair appointments and are well groomed. The book celebrates the spirit of Christmas. If you have been stood up on your wedding day, you rise like a phoenix. Broken relationships do not mean the end of the world. The stories teach one to live. A dreaded wedding leads to finding the love of your life. Christmas comes only once a year and it asks you to forgive as you open your house to unpleasant family members. The characters come in all hues and colours. Upstart daughters who cannot digest their mother’s happy marriage, a lady whose children have flown the nest asks her husband for personal space. Young girls on a trip find adventure with handsome boys thrown in. The characters are not picture-perfect. While one woman is battling depression, the other is overcoming alcohol. Sit in a chair and enjoy this vibrant book.
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THE spirit of Christmas
gathers all in its embrace and the book is all about it. Christmas
Magic is a collection of short stories set in Ireland. The stories
are not about leprechauns or pubs. They are chapters out of everyday
life. The characters are not larger than life but are modern women with
whom the readers can easily identify. The book begins with the tale of
two spinster sisters who shed their Victorian ideals and plan to widen
their horizons after a package is wrongly delivered to them.