Home For Christmas (The Home Series) - Softcover

Ruth, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1537247549 ISBN 13: 9781537247540

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

A trio of long stories with festive themes.Rudolph the Brown-Nosed ReindeerRick isn't looking forward to his lonely corporate Christmas, but it's the season of goodwill and magic is in the air.An off-beat love story. It's time Rick wore his heart on his sleeve, or is it too late? Lessons in love from an unlikely source.Jim's Christmas Carol. Santa and Satan pay a visit. One brings presents, the other an unwelcome presence.Paranormal reality. Jim's played with fire it's time he got his comeuppance, but from who?Home for Christmas. Deck the halls with boughs of holly. Fa la-la la-la, la-la la-la. Tis the Season to be jolly...Romantic-comedy. Pip might accidentally find her true vocation, but the folly of her fibs are about to catch up with her.

About this title

From the Author

The longer I live and the more places I visit in the world, the more connected I feel to my roots, or more specifically my spiritual home, Snowdonia.   
Some years ago we moved from Cheshire to North Wales. Although Cheshire has its history and pretty rural surroundings aplenty, Wales is far more extreme in both aspects. The castles and the rugged hillsides scattered with stone settlements, Druid's circles and Roman roads bring out the historical muse in me. To think that I am treading the same path as someone who lived in the Iron Age, is both fascinating and humbling. Snowdonia kick-started my stalled obsession with writing in a very positive way.
All this whimsical talk of the past makes me sound as if I write historical based fiction. Far from it. Much as I admire many other genres I tend to be very much rooted in current times and my work reflects a lot of my own life experiences. But this is where I find the two ideas merge a little because I am most certainly inspired by this Ice Age landscape and the idea that what has gone before, shapes what we see today, but does it shape what we feel, too?
I write contemporary fiction set in North Wales. It falls very loosely into the romantic genre but it isn't hearts and flowers fiction. You may find the odd spot of arson, adultery and manslaughter laced with black humour and of course, the big landscapes of Snowdonia. 

Review

Top 500 Amazon reviewer: 'If you're looking for something to ease the burden of shopping for the ubiquitous Brussel sprout and need to escape with a good story and a gingerbread latte, then load these delightfully long short stories onto your kindle and let the writing of this talented author take you Home for Christmas.manicscribbler: 'Each story may have a feel-good ending as perhaps befits the season, but all three are rich in detail, satisfyingly complex in plot and delivered with great skill and style from this immensely talented author. The beautiful and rather magical Welsh settings have become an essential backdrop to Jan Ruth's stories, almost becoming another character.'

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1537247549
• ISBN 13: 9781537247540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110