Driving Home For Christmas
Perfect for fans of Mhairi McFarlaneMegan McAllister is home for Christmas…whether she likes it or not!Christmas is about family…and for Megan family means two people: herself, and her daughter Skye. It doesn’t mean her parents who, ten years ago, saw her pregnancy as anything but a miracle. And it definitely doesn’t include her irresistible ex-boyfriend Lucas Bright.So ‘Driving Home for Christmas’ has never been top of Megan’s festive playlist. But for Skye, she knows she needs to spend the holiday season with the people she’s left behind. She can do this. Even if the thought of meeting Lucas under the mistletoe still has her feeling like she’s drunk one-too-many Snowballs!But somewhere between the hanging of stockings and the crackle of wrapping paper, Christmas starts to sparkle. And Megan begins to wonder if family could be bigger than her and Skye after all…Pop the buck’s fizz, stoke the fire and prepare to giggle the festive season away with AL Michael!Praise for A.L. Michael‘I know it’s a good book when I shut the kindle cover and sigh with contentment. The Last Word totally did it for me.’ – 4* from Angela (Goodreads)‘This is a funny, funny book.’ 5* to The Last Word from Rosee (Amazon)‘Fresh, fast and…had that magical romance feeling and a bit of hotness that you just can’t help but love. Absolutely brilliant!’ 5* to The Last Word from The Book Geek Wears Pajamas‘I LOVED THIS. I laughed, I cried, I fell in love. All of the emotions were felt in the reading of this book and it is definitely one of the best Christmas releases that I’ve read this year.’ 5* to Driving Home for Christmas from Erin’s Choice‘I laughed, I cried and I was left with that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you read something wonderful.’ 5* to Driving Home for Christmas from That Thing She Reads
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Megan McAllister is home for Christmasâ¦whether she likes it or not!
Christmas is about familyâ¦and for Megan family means two people: herself, and her daughter Skye. It doesnât mean her parents who, ten years ago, saw her pregnancy as anything but a miracle. And it definitely doesnât include her irresistible ex-boyfriend Lucas Bright.
So âDriving Home for Christmasâ has never been top of Meganâs festive playlist. But for Skye, she knows she needs to spend the holiday season with the people sheâs left behind. She can do this. Even if the thought of meeting Lucas under the mistletoe still has her feeling like sheâs drunk one-too-many Snowballs!
But somewhere between the hanging of stockings and the crackle of wrapping paper, Christmas starts to sparkle. And Megan begins to wonder if family could be bigger than her and Skye after allâ¦
Pop the buckâs fizz, stoke the fire and prepare to giggle the festive season away with AL Michael!
Driving Home for Christmas
A.L. Michael
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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2014
Copyright © A.L. Michael 2014
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E-book Edition © June 2014 ISBN: 9781472096517
Version date: 2018-07-23
A.L. MICHAEL is a twenty-something writer from North London, currently living in Watford. She has a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing, and an MA in Creative Entrepreneurship (both from UEA) and is studying for an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. She is not at all dependent on her student discount card. She works as a creative writing workshop facilitator, and an English tutor, and is currently working on her fourth novel. She has an alarming penchant for puns, is often sarcastic when she means to be sincere, and can spend hours watching videos of Corgis on Buzzfeed. But itâs all research, really.
For Mum and Dad, who have always supported my choices.
And for S, who is the only person I want to kiss under the mistletoe.
Contents
Copyright
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Epilogue
About the Publisher
December 2004
Maybe theyâll be merciful, Megan McAllister thought as she hung Christmas decorations onto the same Christmas tree theyâd had every year since she could remember. Old Piney spent the year out in the garden, and was cruelly uprooted every December and brought into the sweltering heat of the living room, with the log fire crackling, almost as a warning of what happened to bad trees. It was starting to look like it was suffering. It wasnât the only one.
Maybe theyâd see it as a Christmas miracle, and look to the kindness and understanding of the people of Bethlehem when she told them. But she doubted it somehow.
She was meant to be off to Cambridge, to read English. She was meant to go off and do great things. Sheâd only just got her head around the idea of being independent, leaving their little village for a proper town. Leaving Lucas behind. And nowâ¦well, none of that really mattered any more, did it?
She paused, looking at the decoration sheâd picked up. A red clay hand imprint, heavy and solid, with âMeganâs first Christmasâ marker-penned across the front.
Oh shit.
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âI donât want to go, Anna.â
Skye heard her motherâs voice, arguing with her great-aunt. Skye was meant to be in bed, but Auntie Anna tended to let it slide if she was quiet or reading. Anna let a lot of things go for reading. Especially if Skye then recited something impressive from Shakespeare or a Wilde play. Anna was âwild for Wildeâ, as she loved to say.
âDarling, itâs important,â Anna drawled, and Skye could imagine her sucking on her thin black cigarette holder, tracing the edges of her heavily lined lashes.
