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Review: One Day in December

One Day in December One Day in December by Josie Silver
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

There's no such thing as love at first sight according to Laurie, a cynic when it comes to l'amour! That is until one evening in December whilst traveling home on the to deck of the bus, she gazes out the steamed up window and locks eyes with a handsome stranger sitting at the bus stop. In a moment of madness she wills him to get on the bus, but when it drives away without the handsome stranger, Laurie realises he might just have been the man of her dreams. She then spends the next year, alongside her best friend and flatmate Sarah unsuccessfully searching for Bus Boy. The following Christmas at their annual Christmas party, Sarah introduces Laurie to her new boyfriend Jack who turns out to be....BUS BOY! Unable to tell her best friend the truth and shatter her dreams, Laurie keeps the secret to herself, and there follows years of friendship and heartbreak.

I absolutely loved this book - when I initially picked it up, I thought it was going to be a sickly Christmas love story, as it was set in December, but it couldn't have been further away from a Mills and Boon if it tried!

The book was completely addictive and I found myself sitting at work thinking about the characters, itching to get on the train home to read a bit more, but then I realised that the quicker I read it the quicker the story would finish and I didn't want to leave Jack and Laurie.

Just when I sussed out where I thought the story was going...BOOM! It would completely change direction and I was off on a different journey!

You will love this book, but I should warn you - after reading it you will encounter a book hangover!

It has become one of my favourite books of 2018 - I LOVED IT!

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