Gulf Coast Christmas

On the Gulf Coast of Florida, the Christmas party at the Sea Glass Inn was the thing that started the season — until the inn closed and the tradition stopped with it. Georgia Carpenter has decided to bring it back, in honour of her late aunt Norma and to put the reopened inn back at the centre of the town.

It is an enormous undertaking, and Georgia has a life of her own to rebuild alongside it: a second chance she is only halfway sure she has earned.

Gulf Coast Christmas is the eighth book in Maggie Miller's Blackbird Beach series, a warm holiday close to a sweet women's-fiction saga about family, community and starting again.