The Christmas Club
The perfect uplifting and heart-warming read
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4.0 • 2 Ratings
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
Christmas is a time for family, but what if you have to choose yours?
Perfect for fans of Emily Henry's People We Meet on Vacation and Josie Silver's One Day in December.
'A fabulous festive read about found family. I loved it from the first sentence.' Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Do
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For ten years Hannah and Finn have spent Christmas together. With no one to enjoy the holidays with, they've created their own festive traditions. From crooning in a karaoke bar behind a China Town restaurant, to waving from a parade float. Through the years, they've been joined by other lonely souls, Priya and Theo, creating The Christmas Orphans Club.
But everything is about to change. After their friendship suffers the test of a rocky year, Finn and Hannah are finally speaking. They’re trying to put the past behind them and bring back their Christmas spirit. Until Finn announces some rather big news.
News that rocks the group to its core. This may be their last Christmas together…
Can Hannah make this one to remember?
PRAISE FOR THE CHRISTMAS ORPHANS CLUB:
'A whip-smart story of modern love, letting go, and growing up. ' Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Meet Me at the Lake
'A festive, funny, hug of a novel about love in all its forms.' Clare Pooley, New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project
'The Christmas Orphans Club is a beautiful story of friendship with laugh-out-loud dialogue and characters you can’t stop thinking about.' Jennifer Close, New York Times bestselling author of Marrying the Ketchups
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Freeman's compassionate if rocky debut digs into the heart of what makes holidays special: the people they're spent with. Hannah and Finn's college acquaintanceship becomes a best friendship when both are stuck on campus over the holidays. Hannah's an orphan and Finn's family disowned him after he came out as gay, so neither has anywhere else to go—but they make things merry by dressing up in costumes from the drama department and holding a pancake feast. Christmas together becomes a tradition, and the festivities only get more elaborate when they add Hannah's N.Y.C. roommate, Priya, and Theo, Finn's onetime Christmas Eve hookup turned good friend, to the mix. This year, however, Finn drops a bombshell: he's moving cross-country for work. Hannah is devastated but determined to make this last Christmas one to remember. But with Hannah's boyfriend pressuring her to join his family for the holidays and Finn wrestling with whether to admit his lingering crush on Theo, it might be memorable for all the wrong reasons. Freeman doesn't skimp on the yuletide atmosphere and puts a lot of care into her characters' growing pains. The novel's structure has some flaws, however, hopping back and forth between many different Christmases and thereby creating information gaps and telegraphing surprises. Still, Freeman's take on how relationships evolve is full of feeling.
