It’s Christmas 2013: Georgie McCool is a TV comedy writer, she is married to Neal and they have two daughters: Alice and Noomi (Naomi). The family is all set to fly to Neal’s mum in Omaha to spend Christmas with her when Georgie and her writing partner (and best friend) Seth are invited to a meeting regarding a new show they’re writing. Georgie decides to stay behind in California while her family visits her mother in law.
When Georgie phones Neal late at night, he’s grumpy and doesn’t wait for her to say she loves him before he hangs up. In the following days, Georgie has a hard time getting through to him – her phone keeps dying and when she does call, she speaks to the girls or gets his voicemail. Georgie decides to use the landline in her old bedroom, at her mum’s house and gets through to Neal in 1998 after they just started dating. Can she fix all the mistakes she has made in her relationship with Neal in the past/future?
I like the premise of the book – the execution was a bit too much like ‘A Christmas Carol’ for me without the actual ghost of Christmas past. I didn’t really like Georgie that much, Neal was boring and Seth’s a narcissist. I guess this just wasn’t for me.
Read for the ShelfReflection Reading Challenge 2025
Prompt 25: A book by an author who was published by the age of 25
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