#Let it snow book titles update

#Let it snow book titles update

Timelines aren’t my biggest talent so I keep an electronic timetable, which I update as I write the first draft and then again whenever changes occur in subsequent drafts or edits.

SM: With a giant headache, most of the time. MW: Brilliant! The book features a timeline shift where some characters are in Switzerland and some in the UK. Until then, the favourite song of the singing group in the book, the Middletones, was White Christmas. I chose Let it Snow because I like the song too. SM: My publishers suggested it and one other title. Was it enjoyable fitting the phrase into the novel? MW: Let It Snow is a great title, I love that song. I decided, on one of our regular get-together's at The Trading Post, to take the opportunity to quiz Sue about the book. The pacing is spot on, the characters and atmosphere and perfectly realised and there’s a well-maintained suspense to the will-they-won’t-they. It’s always great fun to spend time in Middledip (and revisit a lot of characters from Sue’s previous books) and, this time, the action moves further afield as a big chunk of the novel is set in Switzerland at Christmas, when snow is all around. I liked this a great deal - Lily is a fantastic character and her interplay with Isaac is nicely handled, as is her friendship with Carola (from The Little Village Christmas).

But when he takes a sabbatical to Switzerland, in order to recuperate from a heart attack, Lily finds herself smitten with new bar manager Isaac though, as always in a Sue Moorcroft novel, things don’t run smoothly. To try and establish links with her “other” family, Lily moves to (Sue's wonderful town of) Middledip to work in the pub her half-brother Tubb runs. Growing up with her sister Zinnia in a two-mum household, she’d assumed - and made her peace with the fact - her father was a donor but now it appears her birth-mother, Roma, had a fling which her mum Patsie, wasn’t best pleased about. Lily Cortez finds out, by accident, that her real father has just died.