It's a wonderful life : The Christmas bestseller is back with an unforgettable holiday romance

A sparkling new Christmas novel from Julia Williams. Christmas with the family. Cosy, relaxing ... and a total nightmare? Driving home for Christmas, Beth has everything she wants. The kids and the house, the career and the husband. So why is it that when the New Year comes, she can't stop thinking about her old college boyfriend? Her husband Daniel is tasked with bringing a struggling school up to scratch, but when family life catches up to him, can he be a good father and a good teacher at the same time? Beth's sister Lou has just been dumped ... again. Single and childless, she can't help but be jealous of her sibling's success. But is the grass really always greener? It's a Wonderful Life is a heart-warming novel about the lives that could have been, and what happens when you start to question the choices you made .. A sparkling new Christmas novel from Julia Williams It's Christmas, and Beth King is preparing to spend it in the bosom of her family, doing the same things they have done since time immemorial: arguing with each other, stuffing themselves silly, putting up with Grandad making them watch the Queen, and having the Family Row by teatime. Despite having children of their own, Beth and her husband Daniel have never quite managed to escape the horrors of the Holroyd family Christmas. Beth's mother Mary would never countenance anyone else cooking the turkey. So the family traditions have stuck ... But this year, things are going to be just a little bit different. For a start, Beth's brother, bachelor Ged, appears to have a girlfriend in tow. A very pregnant girlfriend. And her sister Lou, whose car-crash love life could be a boilerplate for every soap opera going, has turned up in floods having been ditched on Christmas Eve - again. Meanwhile Beth, who has spent years trying to maintain the facade of one completely in control, is facing up to the fact that she has no idea how to deal with either her teenage children or her over-stressed husband. And her hitherto successful picture-book career seems to be on the skids as she tries to get to grips with her newest project, a Christmas book entitled The Littlest Angel. As the family gather for Christmas Day, childhood tensions resurface, the teenagers bicker, and Beth wishes more than ever that she could hide away and forget the festive season once and for all. And that's before her parents drop their bombshell .. 'A gorgeous, heart-warming read which is perfect for Christmas,' PORTOBELLO BOOK BLOG Christmas with the family. Cosy, relaxing...and a total nightmare? Driving home for Christmas, Beth has everything she wants. The kids and the house, the career and the husband. So why is it that when the New Year comes, she can't stop thinking about her old college boyfriend? Her husband Daniel is tasked with bringing a struggling school up to scratch, but when family life catches up to him, can he be a good father and a good teacher at the same time? Beth's sister Lou has just been dumped...again. Single and childless, she can't help but be jealous of her sibling's success. But is the grass really always greener? It's a Wonderful Life is a heart-warming novel about the lives that could have been, and what happens when you start to question the choices you made...