![]() Welcome to Baby It's Cold Outside, an awareness and educational program about hypothermia and cold injuries developed specifically for you, the professional Search and Rescue Responder! It's been created to provide the information necessary to properly handle subjects with cold injuries, including hypothermia. And, maybe, to Andrew.īut it wouldn’t be Christmas without a few surprises. So, hoping for a Christmas miracle, she heads to Dublin. Norah has no idea if he will remember, but she has nothing to lose. ![]() If they are both single on Christmas Eve in ten years’ time, they will meet under the clock on Grafton Street, Dublin. Īs Norah battles through the bustling December crowds, she hears the notes of a song that transports her back to the most romantic week of her life.Īfter meeting on a blissful holiday, but knowing they had to part, a boy named Andrew made her a promise: TEN CHRISTMASES LATER, WILL THEIR WISH COME TRUE?. Overall, this was a fun read, and I hope to read more from the author.įATE PULLED THEM APART BUT NOT BEFORE THEY MADE A PROMISE. I enjoyed too meeting the friends she had kept up with since sixth form days and the colleagues and pupils at her current school. The two intertwined main plots, set in 20, respectively, worked well, especially the more current one, and I also liked the earlier snippets of Norah’s memories that were wound into them. I’ve stated my aversion to epilogues enough times in the past, of course. ![]() I think I’d rather have had the book end with Norah’s conclusions on the meeting and maybe a little ‘after I returned home, we…’ as a final chapter. The actual ending to that ‘will-they-won’t-they?’ plot-line was actually quite satisfying, but the book then rushed through 2020 in a bit of a whistlestop pandemic-tour. Joe is also tied up in Norah’s memories of her Dad, which makes him even more of a sympathetic character for me, and I did find myself half hoping that Andrew would fail to turn up. This leads to a bunch of increasingly unlikely adventures for the pair, all of which seem at least as fun as Norah’s memories of Andrew and Italy. Realising she will have time on her hands before the planned meeting, Norah persuades Joe, the one other singleton amongst her friends, to accompany her to Dublin to show her around the parts he’s visited before. Although they have long since lost touch, Norah is certain that Andrew will also have remembered the plan to meet at his favourite cafe for Christmas 2019. Not wanting to impose on any of her coupled-up friends and relatives, Norah thinks back to a promise she made to her holiday romance partner in the summer of 2009 and books a holiday in Dublin with the aim of meeting up with him on Christmas Eve. Secondary school music teacher Norah Jones was expecting to spend Christmas with her mother and younger brother – as she has every year since her father’s death – but a last-minute change of plan is forced upon her by mother’s impulsive decision to do something else. On the other hand, I found the apparent leading man difficult to warm to in the flashbacks, and his appearance in the present day came rather late in the story, well after we’d learned all about him through Our Heroine’s rather rose-tinted memories. Being set mainly in 2019, with a bunch of flashbacks to 2009, the story managed to avoid talking about the pandemic and lockdowns in the main, which is probably what we need for light reading over the coming winter. This was the first one I picked up, and it was a bit of a mixed bag plotwise. I started reading holiday romances early this year, although there’s no guarantee that’ll mean I read more than I do most years. Stevie‘s review of Baby It’s Cold Outside by Emily BellĬontemporary Holiday Romance published by Penguin 02 Sep 21
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