The Christmas Lost & Found: A Romance Advent Calendar for Book Lovers: 24 Christmas Love Stories
Twenty-four nights. Twenty-four lost things. Twenty-four love stories.Open one story a night, from the first of December to Christmas Eve. An advent calendar for adults, in twenty-four complete stories.At Aldergate Central, three thousand things a year come in over the Lost Property counter. Umbrellas.
Coats. A birdcage, empty, with the door shut. Most of them go home. A few go home beautifully — and those are the ones in this book.A pair of red gloves, handed in four minutes apart by two strangers who have never met.A second-hand novel, soaked through, with two hands answering one another down the margins.A letter, sealed, dated 2011, out of the lining of a coat sold on.A tin box, locked, red ribbon, that comes back to the same shelf every December — and that nobody has ever come to claim.Twenty-four complete stories, one for every night of Advent. No two open on the same kind of love.
And every one of them ends — nothing left hanging, nothing that needs tomorrow to make sense. Read one, close the book, and go to bed satisfied.But something does run the whole length of the winter. A woman behind a counter who has not lost a single thing in eleven years. A long shelf of things nobody has come back for. And one box that keeps returning.Watch her, if you like.
She's easy to miss.WHY THIS ONE MAKES A GOOD GIFT24 complete stories — one to open every night from 1 to 24 DecemberNo cliffhangers. Every night ends where it should. Nothing to keep you upAn advent calendar for book lovers — a proper 394-page paperback, not a novelty boxNothing to tear, nothing to throw away. Open it again next DecemberWritten for grown-up readers — warm, British, and quietly funnyOne of those Christmas books for adults you finish and put back on the shelf for next year. For readers of Maeve Binchy, Katie Fforde and Jenny Colgan — and for anyone who has ever handed something in at a counter and hoped it would find its way home.