Product DescriptionBestselling author Lorna Landvik shines in this delightful holiday novel of redemption and forgiveness.
Heiress Caroline Dixon has managed to alienate nearly everyone with her alcohol-fueled antics, which have also provided near-constant fodder for the poison-pen tabloids and their gossip-hungry readers. But like so many girls-behaving-badly, the twenty-six-year-old socialite gets her comeuppance, followed by a newfound attempt to live a saner existence, or at least one more firmly rooted in the real world.
As Caro tentatively begins atoning for past misdeeds, she reaches out to two wonderful people who years ago brought meaning to her life: her former nanny, Astrid Brevald, now living in Norway and Arizona dude ranch owner, Cyril Dale. While Astrid fondly remembers Caro as a special, sweet little girl left in her charge, Cyril recalls how he and his late wife were quite taken with the quick-witted teenager Caro had become when she spent a difficult period in her life at the ranch as her father was dying.
In a series of e-mail exchanges, Caro reveals the depth of her pain and the lengths she went to hide it. In turn, Astrid and Cyril share their own stories of challenging times and offer the unconditional support this young woman has never known. The correspondence leads to the promise of a reunion, just in time for Christmas. But the holiday brings unexpected revelations that change the way everyone sees themselves and one another.
At once heartfelt and witty, ’Tis the Season bears good tidings of great joy about the human condition–that down and out doesn’t mean over and done, that the things we need most are closer than we know, and that the true measure of one’s worth rests in the boundless depths of the soul.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A little disappointing
I have come to expect so much from Lorna Landvik's novels. This one, perhaps designed to capitalize on holidayu shopping, was a little fluffy, and lacked the significat depth of character or plot as usual. Certainly not worth a full price purchase. Please give us your best again Lorna!
Rating: - An exploration of what it means to forgive and be forgiven
Let it be known that I am a sucker for Christmas. I put up the tree, the nativity scene and all the decorations --- including exterior lights --- right after Thanksgiving and start buying eggnog by the quart as soon as it shows up in the grocery stores (and then spend the entire month of January trying to work it off). I especially love Christmas carols and all the holiday songs, and I enjoy each and every one of those seasonal TV specials --- from the Rankin-Bass "Rudolph" classics to Lifetime Network's ... Read More
Rating: - didn't expect to like this style
I didn't expect to like this style but really got in to the story, it actually was quite effective in telling the story. I loved it.
Rating: - So disappointed
I am very disappointed in this book. I love all the other Landvik books, but this makes no sense at all. Waste of time and money....please write another good one to make up for this disaster.
Rating: - If you're not a Reader...
...then you'll love this book. It's quick and fast, easy-to-read and sweet. Kind of like Kinsella's "Shopaholic" series.
However, if you like me, loved Lorna Landvik's past books and had high hopes for this new novel, you will probably be disappointed. This book is just too short to be satisfying.
I continue to hope LL's next book will be longer, richer, and full of 'wonderfulness' as I've come to expect.
- A little disappointing
- An exploration of what it means to forgive and be forgiven
- didn't expect to like this style 
- So disappointed
