"Christmas at Tiffany's: A Novel"--by Karen Swan--in the wake of a heartbreaking betrayal, a young woman leaves the Scottish countryside to find her destiny in three of the most exciting cities in the world—New York, Paris, and London—in this funny and triumphant tale of fulfillment, friendship, and love (see my review)

 

Christmas at Tiffany's: A Novel

Three cities. Three seasons. One chance to find the life that fits.

Cassie settled down too young, marrying her first serious boyfriend. Now, ten years later, she is betrayed and broken. With her marriage in tatters and no career or home of her own, she needs to work out where she belongs in the world and who she really is.

So begins a year-long trial as Cassie leaves her sheltered life in rural Scotland to stay with each of her best friends in the most glamorous cities in the world: New York, Paris and London. Exchanging grouse moor and mousy hair for low-carb diets and high-end highlights, Cassie tries on each city for size as she attempts to track down the life she was supposed to have been leading, and with it, the man who was supposed to love her all along.

MY REVIEW:  Written in an involving and captivating style, "Christmas at Tiffany's" is a charming celebration of friendship and self-discovery. Married at age twenty to a man ten years her senior, Cassie had lived a sheltered life of rural privilege in the moors of Scotland. After a grand society wedding, her husband, Gil, a successful barrister from a wealthy family, had more or less kept her and their marriage isolated from most of the outside world. He had even made her agree to wait ten years before having the child she very much wanted. Now it was their tenth anniversary, and a party just as elaborate as their wedding was being held in celebration of their decade together. However, during the party Cassie's life comes apart at the seams as she learns of Gil's long-standing affair with Wiz, the woman who had befriended her in her rural wifedom. Cassie's three friends from childhood, her boarding school mates, immediately retaliate to their friend's side. Giving her a year of a lifetime, they in turns initiate her into their lifestyles in New York, Paris, and London. At times breathtaking, and at other times heartbreaking, Cassie's year is an amazing journey, encompassing a lifetime of living in just twelve months. Through it all, there is one other friend sharing her reaffirmation--Henry, the brother of one of her boarding school chums. It is Henry, the world traveler, who guides her along with notes and lists of things to do and places to see. When their paths cross, their friendship grows as something more begins to take seed. It blooms with a passionate kiss which changes the course of both their lives--but are their lives meant to be spent with one another? Along with their discovery of attraction, each of them must deal with unresolved personal issues. Can happiness be the destination they each will reach? A lovely story, filled with wonderful characters and delightfully descriptive writing, "Christmas at Tiffany's" is a gift from author Karen Swan.

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"Harry Hunter was everywhere you looked - bearing down from bus billboards, beaming out from the society pages, falling out of nightclubs in the gossip columns, and flirting up a storm on the telly chat show circuit. " Harry Hunter is the new golden boy of the literary world. With his books selling by the millions, the paparazzi on his tail, and a supermodel on each arm, he seems to have the world at his feet. Women all over the world adore him but few suspect that his angelic looks hide a darker side, a side that conceals a lifetime of lies and deceit. Tor, Cress and Kate have been best friends for as long as they can remember. Through all the challenges of marriage, raising children and maintaining their high-flying careers, they have stuck together as a powerful and loyal force to be reckoned with - living proof that twenty-first-century women can have it all, and do. It is only when the captivating Harry comes into their lives that things begin to get complicated, as Tor, Cress and Kate are drawn into Harry's dangerous games . . . 

 

 

Summer at Tiffany's

A wedding to plan. A wedding to stop. What could go wrong?

Cassie loves Henry. Henry loves Cassie. With a Tiffany ring on her finger, all that Cassie has left to do is plan the wedding. It should be so simple but when Henry pushes for a date, Cassie pulls back.

Henry's wild, young cousin, Gem, has no such hesitations and is racing to the aisle at a sprint, determined to marry in the Cornish church where her parents were wed. But the family is set against it, and Cassie resolves to stop the wedding from going ahead.

When Henry lands an expedition sailing the Pacific for the summer, Cassie decamps to Cornwall, hoping to find the peace of mind she needs to move forwards. But in the dunes and coves of the northern Cornish coast, she soon discovers the past isn't finished with her yet? 

 

Karen Swan

 

Karen Swan is the Sunday Times Top Three best-selling author of eighteen books and her novels sell all over the world. She writes two books each year - one for the summer period and one for the Christmas season. Previous winter titles include Christmas At Tiffanys, Christmas under The Stars, The Christmas Party, and for summer, The Rome Affair, The Greek Escape and The Spanish Promise.

Her books are known for their evocative locations and Karen sees travel as vital research for each story. She loves to set deep, complicated love stories within twisting plots, sometimes telling two stories in the same book.

Previously a fashion editor, she lives in Sussex with her husband, three children and two dogs.

Her new novel The Hidden Beach will be available from July 2020.

Visit Karen's author page on Instagram @swannywrites, and Twitter @KarenSwan1.

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