A Not Quite Perfect Christmas

Escape the Christmas rush and enjoy a break with this festive short story

A Christmas fairy tale in New York?

This Christmas, Emma Darcy has decided, is going to be perfect! Not only has she exchanged her glamorous London life to jet out to the even more glitzy New York, but she has her gorgeous boyfriend finally by her side, and her dream job comes with an invite to their super-dazzling Christmas party. Ooooh, what to wear?!
To celebrate, this year she's planning a Christmas like you see in the movies; her tinsel-topped to-do list includes ice-skating outside Rockefeller Center, strolling around a snow-covered Central Park and Christmas (window) shopping at Tiffany.
That plan goes slightly out the window with news that her Mum, sister and niece Lily will be visiting her – that's a lot of Darcy women, even in the Big Apple! With family drama and a work disaster to avoid too, this might not quite be the picture-perfect Christmas she'd had in mind…!
A Not Quite Perfect short story.

Praise for Annie Lyons

'a humorous, lighthearted read' – Fiona's Book Reviews for Not Quite Perfect

'A great holiday read!' – Jill Steeples, author of Let's Call the Whole Thing Off on Not Quite Perfect

About the author

After leaving university, ANNIE LYONS worked as a bookseller on Charing Cross Road followed by an eleven-year career in publishing. Following redundancy in 2009 she started to write and produced ‘Not Quite Perfect'. She now loves writing as much as coffee, not as much as her children and a bit more than gardening. She lives in a house in London with her husband and two children. One day she hopes to own a chocolate-brown Labrador named John and have tea with Mary Berry.