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Married by Christmas
Married by Christmas
Dec 12, 2025 4:11 AM

Author:Scarlett Bailey

Married by Christmas

A fun, festive romantic comedy to curl up with this winter. If you love Jenny Colgan’s An Island Christmas and Josie Silver’s One Day in December you'll love this heartwarming Christmas read.

All she wants is a perfect Christmas Eve wedding...

It’s been on Anna’s wish-list since she was a little girl, dreaming of a far happier family life than she’d ever experienced.

But now – only two weeks before her big day – her perfect husband-to-be drops a bombshell...

Only nothing’s going to stop Anna’s plans – not even the pesky inconvenience of discovering her groom already has a wife!

Reviews

I LOVE it! It was funny, romantic and the perfect book to snuggle up with – Scarlett Bailey does it again!

—— Miranda Dickinson

Endearing and funny, we loved this gorgeously Christmassy romcom

—— Closer

A light, fun and fast-paced chunk of chortlesome chick-lit

—— Heat

an awesome Christmassy read with a lot of twists and turns ... you can't put it down

—— Chicklit Club

Perfect for the festive holiday, a story of love and romance and a Christmas Eve wedding gone wrong . . . Great fun

—— Daily Record

This miraculous volume of selected letters provides a moving and revelatory portrait of the famed author of Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle. . . . Fans will find the collection as spellbinding as Vonnegut’s best novels, and casual readers will discover letters as splendid in their own way as those of Keats.

—— Publisher's Weekly

A laughing prophet of doom

—— New York Times

Unimitative and inimitable social satirist

—— Harper's

A satirist with a heart, a moralist with a whoopee cushion, a cynic who wants to believe

—— Jay McInerney

Splendidly assembled and edited

—— Kurt Andersen , Scotsman

Unique

—— Doris Lessing

Kurt Vonnegut never regarded himself as a great writer. But he did possess that undervalued gift of charm, of sociability. There are authors we admire or envy, but there are just a few we really, really love, and Vonnegut is one of them.

—— Washington Times

[Reveals] Vonnegut’s passions, annoyances, loves, losses, mind and heart . . . The letters stand alone—and stand tall, indeed. . . . Vonnegut’s most human of hearts beats on every page

—— Kirkus Reviews

A well-rounded collection of letters

—— James Campbell , Guardian

[The letters] have a directness and a consistency, a scruffy but ensnaring humanity… Kurt seems by turns kind, engaged, imaginative, witty, self-deprecating (“I write with a big black crayon… grasped in a grubby, kindergarten fist,”) and – on various fronts – courageous

—— Keith Miller , Daily Telegraph

Crisply edited... There was something fundamentally goodhearted about Vonnegut. For all his gloom and cantankerousness, he never entirely lost his faith in human nature.

—— John Preston , Spectator
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