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A witty, warmhearted novel about coming to terms with grief, taking a chance on unexpected connections, and finding family in time for the holidays
For wedding singer Mel Hart, the holidays have always retained a certain magic. Her mother, Connie, always managed to pull off spectacular Santa hijinx that convinced Mel to keep believing in Santa way longer than other kids. Those moments meant everything to Mel because the rest of the year, life was unpredictable because of her motherโs alcohol use.
But two weeks before Christmas, Mel gets a call from the hospital: her mother has died.
Then a woman shows up on Mel’s doorstep, claiming to be Connie’s estranged best friend, promising to tell Mel a different narrativeโone in which Connie was almost a famous country music star, if only a man hadn’t gotten in the way. Instead of spending Christmas alone in her dead mother’s house, Mel agrees to stay with Barb for the holidays, finding herself in the middle of Barb’s complicated family and uncovering secrets while fighting an attraction to Barbโs in-the-middle-of-a-divorce son. As Christmas approaches, Mel reckons with how little she knew about her mother’s past while reexamining her own future.
A Home for the Holidaysย is a moving exploration of complicated grief, mother-daughter relationships, loving someone with addiction, and the redemptive power of opening one’s heart to love in all its forms.
โBooklist“Complicated loss, maternal secrets, and newfound hope are blanketed by Chicago snow in Taylor Hahn’s tenderhearted novelย A Home for the Holidaysโฆ Well-balanced and lovely. Hahn (The Lifestyle) writes funny and heartwarming scenes as deftly as she renders the illogical nature of grief…ย Those seeking some heft in their seasonal reading may find comfort in the truism underpinning Hahn’s novel: that the home one needs now might not be the home one has always known, and that honoring both is possible–for the holidays and beyond.”
โShelf Awareness“Hahnโs second novel…ย explores love and grief and the complexity that comes with both. Fans of Kristan Higgins and Mhairi McFarlane will find much to love here.โ
โLibrary Journal“Satisfyingโฆ Charmingโฆ This feel-good holiday novel has just the right amount of grit.โ
โPublishers Weekly“An exquisitely written, tender, big-hearted exploration of love, grief and family,ย Home for the Holidaysย absolutely sparkles. I loved every second and every page.โ
โAllison Winn Scotch, bestselling author ofย The Rewind
“This is the perfect big-hearted novel to curl up with!ย A Home For the Holidaysย explores grief, love, and family secrets with a heavy dose of charm and Christmas magic. Taylor Hahnโs writing is honest, emotionally generous, and just so funny. I couldnโt love it more!”
โJennifer Close, author ofย Marrying the Ketchups
“Taylor Hahn is back with a warm-hearted holiday novel about second chances, found family, and maybe even a Christmas miracle or two. Readers will devour this charming page turner and root for wedding singer Mel Hart to find healing, a fresh start, and, maybe most of all,ย A Home for the Holidays.ย This feel-good book packs a big emotional punchโand Taylor Hahn has quickly found a place on my personal list of auto-buy authors.”
โKristy Woodson Harvey,ย New York Times bestselling author ofย A Happier Life
โA deeply moving portrait of mothers and daughters,ย A Home for the Holidaysย is perfect for readers who like their heartwarming holiday stories cut with a dash of Joni Mitchell’s โRiver.โ Taylor Hahn had me laughing one moment and weeping the next with this stunner of a novel.โ
โLaura Hankin, author ofย One-Star Romance
โTaylor Hahn performs magic by exploring the deepest reaches of loss, love, and finding ourselves, and does it with humor, wit, and a flair for serendipity. She reminds us that even our most well-worn stories about our loved onesโand ourselvesโcan surprise us if only we are willing to take a closer look. This book is for anyone who has ever yearned for a mother and felt the singular grief of a too-soon, complicated loss.ย A Home for the Holidays holds all the complexities of grief and just what it takes to carve your own path out of the rubble. Redemptive, relatable, smart-funny, and yes, romantic, this novel will make you believe in second chances. I will never forget these characters. Be ready to fall in love.โ โChelsea Bieker, author ofย Madwomanย andย Godshot
โA Home for the Holidaysย is a wonder. Taylor Hahn has written a pitch-perfect novel about grief, healing, and coming to terms with family secrets. I fell in love with Mel, a wedding singer who must re-examine the meaning of home after her motherโs passing, and in doing so, opens herself up to a more expansiveย definition of family. Heartwarming, true, and ultimately playful, this novel will stay with me for a long time.โ
โCrystal Hana Kim, author ofย The Stone Home.
comes highly recommended by Chick Lit Book Cafe!!
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