All I Want for Christmas by Ros Clarke (Guest Post & Giveaway)

Happy Hump-day lovelies! Today I'd like to welcome author Ros Clarke over who has a great holiday post for you all!

I'm a sucker for a great Christmas movie.  I love the classics--Meet Me in St Louis, Miracle on 34th Street and Holiday Inn--and I love some of the recent films too--The Holiday, While You Were Sleeping, and Love Actually.  Okay, I'm a sucker for a soppy Christmas rom-com.

Love Actually is an unusual film, telling ten separate but related love stories in the space of its two hours. Ten short stories, really.  I love how gradually we discover the connections between all the characters and I always shed a little tear at the final scene in the airport with all the happy reunions. Because mostly, I love a happy ending, and with Love Actually, you get a lot of happy endings for your money.

Not all the stories have a happy ending, though. There's Andrew Lincoln, left holding up placards in the street to tell Keira Knightley he loves her even though he knows it's unrequited. There's the heartbreaking moment when Emma Thompson realises that her husband, Alan Rickman, has been cheating on her. And there is the magnificent Laura Linney as Sarah,  whose desperate crush on her co-worker has to take second place to the mentally-ill brother she cares for so much. I can't tell you how much I wanted Karl to be a better man.  To understand Sarah's need to be there whenever her brother called. To find a way to support her rather than to walk away.

All I Want For Christmas is my way of finding a happy ending for a somewhat similar situation.  Anna's mother has early-onset Alzheimer's disease and Anna is her main carer.  She doesn't want pity and she doesn't think she has room in her life for any other relationship.  But Hugh Munro has different ideas. He doesn't want to offer Anna pity, but he does want to offer help. It's not going to be easy for any of them, but it's going to be better if they face the future together.

Last night, Anna Gardner was the life of the office Christmas party—right up until she threw herself at gorgeous advertising executive playboy, Hugh Munro. Again. Last year, Hugh let her pretend their passionate kiss never happened, but this year he’s determined to make Anna admit she wants him as much as he wants her. Except, Hugh doesn’t know the office party is the only night of the year his friend lets her hair down. That every hour she’s away from the office is spent caring for her sickly mother. That her mother’s condition, early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, is hereditary. When Hugh finds out what she’s been hiding, he’s forced to do some serious soul-searching. It’s not fair to Anna or her mother for him to get involved casually, but casual relationships are all he knows. Can he prove to himself—and to Anna—that she’s all he wants for Christmas?

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About Ros:

Ros Clarke is a writer, a student, a church worker, a crafter, a blogger, a twitterer, a lazy gardener, and an appalling housekeeper. She is interested in almost everything except cricket and football (US and UK) and mostly she likes happy endings in fiction and in real life.

You can find Ros at her website and follow her on Twitter!

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