Merry

Praise for Merry:“I fell in love with Merry Bingham from the very first page. Breen has created the perfect recipe for a Christmas novel: part hilarious family squabbles, part exotic European location, and a dash of magic in the form of a ghostly literary icon. Yet the characters remain grounded and highly sympathetic. Laugh-out-loud funny and genuinely moving—this is the holiday book I’ve been waiting for.”—Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Queen“All the joy and magic of a Hallmark holiday tale with the added depth and urgency of a modern family novel. Rare book dealer Merry Bingham is determined to fix her fractious family by taking them all to London for the best Christmas ever, even as she grapples with her own guilt and faces an uncertain diagnosis. This fresh and clever reimagining of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol drew me in with its astute and empathetic exploration of the complex family dynamics at play between adult children and their imperfect parents.”—Kim van Alkemade, New York Times bestselling author of Orphan #8 and Counting Lost Stars“From the opening page, the reader is in for a true Christmas treat. Merry is everything a Christmas novel should be—heartwarming and filled with endearing characters. There are many lessons to be learned but Susan approaches them with humor and great holiday cheer. I loved every minute of this wonderful book!”—Anita Hughes, author of Christmas at the Lake and A Magical New York Christmas“Merry is a Christmas novel to be savored. Breen’s latest is filled with warmth, insight, emotional depth, and a protagonist that will stay with you long after you turn the final page.”—Carola Lovering, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Lies and Bye, Baby

Susan Breen is the award-winning author of The Fiction Class and the Maggie Dove mystery series. She teaches novel writing at Gotham Writers and has been on the faculty of conferences from Cape Cod to Dubai. She loves stories about families, London, ghosts, guilt, atonement, dogs, Charles Dickens, and Christmas. She likes the idea of collecting rare books, though so far, she’s only collected two, both of them being early editions of A Christmas Carol.