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The Mother of all Christmases
Milly Johnson
Publication Date: November 15th, 2018
528 Pages
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Genres: Women’s Fiction | Romance | Holiday | Christmas
At the moment when a child is born, a mother is born also.
I really liked this book even though it wasn’t as festive as I had hoped. It was very funny in parts but it also broke my heart. Three women find themselves on the unexpected path to motherhood all are due around Christmas so they meet up at a group for expectant mothers. What follows is a funny and heartbreaking take on the road to having a baby. They’re all first-time moms and it was hilarious. A couple of the women work at a Christmas cracker plant and I had no idea how much work went into making them!
I love it when books can make me feel and this one made me feel every emotion imaginable. I felt like these ladies and the other female characters were from a playgroup I went to with my youngest son over thirty years ago. It was called The Young and the Tireless. We met with our children to have coffee and talk about pregnancy and child-rearing. It just goes to show how little times have changed in that aspect. There are lots of characters in this book but they’re all very well drawn and it was easy to tell them apart. It was very clear which character was speaking because of their different personalities. None of these ladies are perfect but that was perfectly fine with me. It would be a shame not to mention that some of the chapters start with articles from the local paper and they’re filled with comical errors. I laughed so hard.
Although I’ve heard about this author and her books this is the first time I have read one and it won’t be my last. She has one called I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day that I have my eye on, I also like the sound of The Woman in the Middle. That’s the best compliment I can give an author, that I want to read more of their books.
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