Welcome to my MERRY world, which is full of books, London, and the angry ghost of Charles Dickens. Along with one loving family who keeps on quarreling. (Or perhaps it’s one quarrelling family who can’t stop loving.) And then there’s a talking dog. I hope you find this a MERRY place to be.
Best wishes,
Susan
MERRY by Susan Breen
$29.99
Will this be the year that Merry Bingham is sensible about Christmas? Find out soon!
Advance Praise for MERRY!
“From the opening page, the reader is in for a true Christmas treat. Merry is everything a Christmas novel should be—heartwarming and filled with endearing characters. There are many lessons to be learned but Susan approaches them with humor and great holiday cheer. I loved every minute of this wonderful book!”
– Anita Hughes, author of Christmas at the Lake and A Magical New York Christmas
“All the joy and magic of a Hallmark holiday tale with the added depth and urgency of a modern family novel. Rare book dealer Merry Bingham is determined to fix her fractious family by taking them all to London for the best Christmas ever, even as she grapples with her own guilt and faces an uncertain diagnosis. This fresh and clever reimagining of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol drew me in with its astute and empathetic exploration of the complex family dynamics at play between adult children and their imperfect parents.”
– Kim van Alkemade, NYT Bestselling author, Orphan #8
“I fell in love with Merry Bingham from the very first page. Breen has created the perfect recipe for a Christmas novel: part hilarious family squabbles, part exotic European location, and a dash of magic in the form of a ghostly literary icon. Yet the characters remain grounded and highly sympathetic. Laugh-out-loud funny and genuinely moving – this is the holiday book I’ve been waiting for.”
– Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Queen
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MERRY by Susan Breen
Does Merry Bingham need to put up six Christmas trees this year?
No, of course not. Five would be more than enough.
Neither does she have to have put candles in each of the windows of her pink Victorian house. Or order vintage tinsel from a private supplier in New York City. Or buy presents for everyone at her office, especially given how notoriously particular antiquarian booksellers are. Or try to get her three grown children to smile in a non-snarky way for the annual Bingham Christmas card. Or make homemade sugar donuts to hand out to all the people who drive by her house every year to admire the lights and ask her how much her electric bill is.
This could be the year that Merry Bingham is sensible about Christmas.
“But why do sprits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?”
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