The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       August 6, 2025

 

Author  Beth Moran

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 978-1836334750
Publisher:         Boldwood Books
Release Date:   6 August 2025  

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Mary and Beckett are strangers, each facing their own challenges, each one reluctant to get involved in life because it hurts far too much but fate has other ideas as they find they have little choice as a blizzard is happening, and Mary is in labour!

Mary has spent her entire pregnancy in denial, depressed, devastated and living in a small, run down Cottage in the middle of a f forest in Sherwood. She has been cramping for some time before she admits to herself that perhaps this massive bump, she has been carting around is about to be born.

Beckett, the only taxi driver who will come out to the Cottage, finds Mary in labour and not coping with anything at all. He places her in the backseat, drives off in the storm only to discover the road blocked with an accident. They take a side route towards a church, The New Life Church where Mary is taken inside and before too long gives birth to a baby boy.

From this time on her world changes, along with Beckett’s, as they begin to build a friendship that helps them both learn to cope with the distress of their past and fresh hope for the future.

Add Beckett’s grandfather, a man on a mission but one who is not succeeding, the wonderful people of the church community that come together to teach them both valuable lessons about grief, friendship and life and you have a funny, heartwarming, absolutely enjoyable story  from Beth Moran as life, as it always does takes charge in The Most Wonderful time of the Year.