All I Want for Christmas

Aug 9, 2025 3:07 PM

Author:Amy Silver

Twelve days and counting...

It's Bea's first Christmas with her baby son, and this year she's determined to do everything right. But there is still so much to do: the Christmas menu needs refining; her café, The Honey Pot, needs decorating; and she's invited the whole neighbourhood to a party on Christmas Day. She really doesn't have time to get involved in two new people's lives, let alone fall in love...

When Olivia gets knocked over in the street, however, Bea can't help bringing her into The Honey Pot and getting to know her. Olivia's life is even more hectic than her own, and with her fiancé's entire family over from Ireland for Christmas, she shouldn't be lingering in the cosy warmth of Bea's café. Chloe, on the other hand, has nowhere else to go. Her affair with a married man has alienated her friends, and left her lonelier than ever.

But Christmas is a magical time, and in the fragrant atmosphere of The Honey Pot, anything can happen: new friends can be made, hearts can heal, and romance can finally blossom...

Reviews

A very good novel indeed - the relationship between mother and daughter is a triumph. This novel deserves to be bought, read and kept.

—— Elizabeth Jane Howard

One True Thing is so uncompromising in its portrait of life and death, so honest in its rendering of love and loss, that it is simply impossible to forget.

—— Alice Hoffman

Quindlen's extraordinary moving novel is about family responsibilities, compassion, and growing up.

—— Daily Mail

Not a word or an emotion is out of place

—— Sunday Times

...a brave and beautiful book.

—— The Times

Imbued with heartbreak, grace and humour, this novel made me walk taller for days.

—— She

One True Thing is a book about the very nature of love... and insight into the workings of the heart is what Anna Quindlen is so good at

—— Tatler

Witty, profound... exhilarating

—— Margaret Forster

Fiercely compassionate and frank... conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy.

—— Elle U.S.

Provocative... we leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began.

—— Los Angeles Times

Previous Article：The Importance of Being Myrtle Next Article：The Adventures of Sally

Comments

Welcome to zzdbook comments! Please keep conversations courteous and on-topic. To fosterproductive and respectful conversations, you may see comments from our Community Managers.