*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR ***
Two sisters ... two very different lives.

Alison's American dream is in tatters. Her highflying career is on the skids and her Upper East Side apartment is now way beyond her means. But pride prevents her from telling her family back home just how bad things are.

Olivia is fraught trying to juggle family, career, preparations for Christmas and organize a surprise party for their mother's seventieth birthday. How she envies, and sometimes resents, her sister Alison and her life of excitement and affluence in New York.

Coming home for the holidays is the last thing Alison wants to do, especially now that she's met a rather attractive neighbour. But family ties are strong. Alison and Olivia must sort their differences, throw a party and Christmas might just bring changes for Alison that she could never have imagined ...

What readers are saying about Patricia Scanlan's novels:
'Utterly magical and wonderful ... warmth and compassion shine through' MARIAN KEYES
'Like being enfolded in a hug from the great writer herself: warm, comforting and full of love' CATHY KELLY
'There can be little doubt that Patricia Scanlan is the prolific queen of contemporary Irish popular fiction' Sunday Times
''There is a heartbreaking authenticity in her observations' Irish Times
'The ultimate comfort read' Glamour
'A bright, sunny read in which these lives interweave with unexpected results' Sunday Express S magazine