Book info

• Title Baby It's Cold Outside
• Author Emily Bell
• Year 2021
• Genre Romance

As Norah battles through the bustling December crowds, she hears the notes of a song that transports her back to the most romantic week of her life. After meeting on a blissful holiday, but knowing they had to part, a boy named Andrew made her a promise: If they are both single on Christmas Eve in ten years' time, they will meet under the clock on Grafton Street, Dublin. Norah has no idea if he will remember, but she has nothing to lose. So, hoping for a Christmas miracle, she heads to Dublin. To that clock. And, maybe, to Andrew. But it wouldn't be Christmas without a few surprises...

Thoughts

I read some of this and then paused for a while, trying to decide whether it had grabbed me or not. Usually if you have to ask the question, it hasn’t, but I dipped back in and actually quite enjoyed the rest of the story. Two people who had a brief holiday romance agree to meet back up in ten years, and we follow the journey to see if they actually show up. Dipping back into what happened then, and forward to what’s happening now, inevitably it is about finding that comfortable love that was there all along.

Rating: 3 / 5