Description:The intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club are back for the
holidays, soothing jingled nerves and stressed shoppers in their
exclusive spa and celebrating the joys of the season. In her witty and
delightfully wisecracking prose, Nancy Thayer tells a heartwarming tale
packed with fun, secrets, romance–and an ample dose of good cheer.
When
the Hot Flash friends gather at the spa to trim the Christmas tree,
they share steaming mugs of hot chocolate, a few laughs, and a vow to
make this holiday one to remember. And it is–but not in the cheerful,
ho-ho-ho way they expected. Instead, Christmas brings family conflicts,
household accidents, plane delays–and that’s just the beginning.
After
a hazardous holiday season, the women make resolutions that they intend
to keep . . . in a perfect world. But life–and their friends and
relatives–cause complications. Shirley lends financial support to her
boyfriend’s schemes, which infuriates Alice, whose own son commits an
act she’s not sure she can accept. Marilyn travels to Scotland and falls
in love, but her octogenarian mother needs her at home. And when Polly
and Faye find themselves pitted against each other by a younger woman,
an they overcome this clash to make a new, entrepreneurial dream come
true? Then real disaster strikes, bringing new challenges and surprising
revelations.
Just as every month of the year throws new
problems at us all, so too does the end of the year give us the chance
to reunite and put these problems
into their proper perspective. And
when the Hot Flash Five get together for the holidays, we should expect
nothing less than the unexpected.