{"id":7719,"date":"2016-12-13T10:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2016-12-13T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T10:09:58","slug":"the-new-christmas-romance-from-julia-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7719","title":{"rendered":"The new Christmas romance from Julia Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1847563600\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1847563600&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1847563600&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1847563600\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1847563600&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Plot per Amazon<\/a>: <em>&#8220;Driving home for Christmas, Beth has everything she wants. The kids and the house, the career and the husband. So why is it that when the New Year comes, she can\u2019t stop thinking about her old college boyfriend? <\/em><em>Her husband Daniel is tasked with bringing a struggling school up to scratch, but when family life catches up to him, can he be a good father and a good teacher at the same time? <\/em><em>Beth\u2019s sister Lou has just been dumped\u2026again. Single and childless, she can\u2019t help but be jealous of her sibling\u2019s success. But is the grass really always greener?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The narrative is presented from\u00a0three viewpoints.\u00a0Between Beth, her husband Daniel and her younger sister Lou, we learn\u00a0the story of the family from one Christmas to the next.<\/p>\n<p>According to one review, just like George Bailey in the film of the same name, Beth comes to realise that she has already has\u00a0a wonderful life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1847563600\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=1847563600&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7755\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/519gsludq8l.jpg\" alt=\"519gsludq8l\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/519gsludq8l.jpg 332w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/519gsludq8l-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=invittoevent-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=1847563600\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life Plot per Amazon: &#8220;Driving home for Christmas, Beth has everything she wants. The kids and the house, the career and the husband. So why is it that when the New Year comes, she can\u2019t stop thinking about her old college boyfriend? Her husband Daniel is tasked with bringing a struggling school &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7719\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The new Christmas romance from Julia Williams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,662],"tags":[130,1273,1274,1002],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar-events-misc","category-literature","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-romance","tag-its-a-wonderful-life","tag-julia-williams"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The new Christmas romance from Julia Williams - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7719\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The new Christmas romance from Julia Williams - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life Plot per Amazon: &#8220;Driving home for Christmas, Beth has everything she wants. 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