Always, in December: A Novel

"A poignant, heart-tugging, life-affirming story that will wrap around you like a hug during any season. Keep tissues nearby!"--Josie Silver, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December

It started with a letter. It ended with a love story.

Every December, Josie posts a letter from her home in London to the parents she lost on Christmas night many years ago. Each year, she writes the same three words: Missing you, always. But this year, her annual trip to the postbox is knocked off course by a bicycle collision with a handsome stranger--a stranger who will change the course of Josie's life.

Josie always thought she was the only one who avoided the Christmas season, but this year, Max has his own reasons for doing the same--and coincidence leads them to spending the holiday together. Aglow with new love, Josie thinks this might be the start of something special.

Only for Max to disappear without saying goodbye.

Over the course of the next year, Max and Josie will find that fate continues to bring them together in places they'd never expect. New York City. Edinburgh. The quiet English countryside. And it turns out, Max had every reason to leave and every reason to stay. But what does fate hold for Josie and Max as Christmas approaches again?

A devastating, romantic, life-affirming love story, Always, in December will stay with readers long after they've finished the last page.

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416 pages

Average rating: 6.75

60 RATINGS

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cemcgee
Dec 04, 2023
9/10 stars
I am not a romance reader. I don’t find myself in the romance section of any bookstore unless I’m working a shift or walking through it. So with hesitation when the books were picked for bookclub, I voted for this one and hoped that I could get through it. What I didn’t expect is that within the first 100 pages, I had laughed and was engrossed in this strange relationship that Josie and Max had going on. The way he slips out only to unexpectedly show up in the weirdest way possible and then poof, gone again like it never happened. Even more so I am very shocked that I got teary eyed during that one small chapter of the funeral and Josie having those simple conversations with Erin, Chloe and Max’s parents. For a huge fantasy reader who can’t do romance in the epic journeys I read, Always, in December, was just perfect. A cozy read and am incredibly happy that I loved a romance novel. But let me just say, NO! Out of all that could have happened thats how it ended?!?!?!
whatmiareads
Apr 11, 2023
6/10 stars
To be precise, this book is 3.5 ⭐️. This time, I did read the plot but was thrown off by the end, reading that particular line and just... staring into space.

I was contemplating between 3.5/4 but settled for the first bc of Josie's and Max's stubbornness and how cruel life was to both.

Josie and Max. I think if I was Josie I'd hate myself for what I did but I know it is entirely not my fault either. But I'd still feel guilty for leaving Max alone.

It felt like they're right people who met each other only at wrong times and that's sad. But now, Josie would take all the chances she has and not regret any.

Not a bad book, not fantastic either but something that I'd reflect about myself.
Sarahefirth
Dec 01, 2022
5/10 stars
On the front of the book, Josie Silver’s quote says that this “life-affirming story will wrap around you like a hug.” Not sure what kinds of hugs she’s getting. Usually when someone hugs me I don’t come away from it feeling like I wish I’d elected to have a punch in the face instead. At least then I’d have known what was coming instead of accepting a hug only to come back to consciousness hours later having been beaten mercilessly and left for dead.

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