Review : A Wish for Winter

A Wish for Winter by Viola Shipman

Genre: Holiday, Christmas, Fiction, Chick Lit, Romance,

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Pages: 416

Published: November 15th 2022 by Graydon House

Despite losing her parents in a tragic accident just before her fourteenth Christmas, Susan Norcross has had it better than most, with loving grandparents to raise her and a gang of quirky, devoted friends to support her. Now a successful bookstore owner in a tight-knit Michigan lakeside community, Susan is facing down forty—the same age as her mother when she died—and she can’t help but see everything she hasn’t achieved, including finding a love match of her own. To add to the pressure, everyone in her small town believes it’s Susan’s destiny to meet and marry a man dressed as Santa, just like her mother and grandmother before her. So it seems cosmically unfair that the man she makes an instant connection with at an annual Santa Run is lost in the crowd before she can get his name.

What follows is Susan and her friends’ hilarious and heartwarming search for the mystery Santa—covering twelve months of social media snafus, authors behaving badly and dating fails—as well as a poignant look at family, friendship and what defines a well-lived and well-loved life.

“Viola Shipman has written a captivating story for anyone whose memories run deep… This book keeps faith and hope alive!” —New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods

A Country Living Magazine Best Christmas Book to Read This Holiday Season!

Susan is facing fourty the same age her mother passed and it seems everyone is trying to set her up with someone. She wants to meet a man like her mother and family before her in a santa suit. When she happens to meet that man they have a deep connection but things happened and she couldn't get ahold of him. Now with some meddling of close ones she's not searching for her santa. 

This was such a heartwarming book, perfect for this holiday season! I loved getting to know Susan, her friends and family. Susan had a lot of healing to do since the death of her parents and feeling guilty like their death was her fault. Then there was her meddling friends and family who were so well meaning trying to set her up on blind dates with who they think that santa she had a deep connection with might be. Then there was a brief back and fourth of past and present of how the parents and grandparents met their santa dressed loves it was pretty cute. This was a pretty great book I really enjoyed it. Highly Recommend.