The Xmas Factor

Synopsis

Thank Goodness Christmas Comes Just Once A Year...! From The Bestselling Authors Of Getting Mad, Getting Even. Meet Two Women With Two Totally Different Approaches To The Festive Season. Beth: It's Only September, And Already She Has Performance Anxiety. Not Surprising When She Has Agreed To Lay On The Annual Christmas Eve Village Bash - The Piece De Resistance Of Her Husband's Former Wife - Not To Mention Having To Host Christmas For His Difficult Offspring. New To This Frenzied Build-up To The Festivities, Beth Begins To Lose Sight Of What It All Means. To Her The Christmas Lights Are Looking More Like The Headlamps Of An Oncoming Train. Carol: Glamorous Magazine Editor, Who Put Her Aspirational Christmas Issue To Bed Sometime In July And Is So Involved In Finding A Scoop To Save Her Ailing Magazine That She Fails To Notice The Impending Festive Rush. Panicked And Wracked With Guilt, She Is Determined To Make It A Picture-perfect Time For Her Little Boy And, Opting For Convenience, Books A Lovely-sounding Cottage In A Quaint Village. Even The Best-laid Plans Have A Habit Of Unravelling - And No Plan At All Is A Recipe For Disaster. So When These Two Christmases Collide, It Looks Like It's Going To Be Anything But Goodwill Towards Men...