Friday, July 31, 2020

BOOK: Christmas in July: I Need Christmas by Carol Ann Kauffman






























After a depressing year of sadness, loneliness, and self-

doubt, successful civil engineer and former All-American 

basketball star Elizabeth (Betsy) Curry returns home to

Oakville, Ohio, for the Christmas holidays a depressed and

broken women. Reeling from her bitter divorce from the 

handsome, charming, morally bankrupt Tommy DeMalio, 

her college sweetheart and first big love, who left her after 

two years of what she thought was a good marriage for a 

stripper he met at an office bachelor party for her co-worker, 

Betsy feels lost and empty. Not exactly anticipating the happy 

holiday with her family and their multitude of joyful Christmas 

customs and long-time storybook-like traditions, she knows 

she needs them in order to heal. 

Once comfortable at home and feeling somewhat better 

about herself, Tommy shows up and claims he wants a 

reconciliation, throwing her back into the self-destructive 

cycle of doubt, hostility, and suspicion she is trying so hard to 

escape. 

She discovers her father has set her up with his protégé at 

work, the tall, handsome, athletic red-haired Patrick, who, try 

as hard as she can, she can’t find a single thing she doesn’t 

like about him. 

So, what’s the problem? Betsy feels it’s too soon for her to 

love again. How can she love anyone again when she 

doesn’t like herself or what she’s become since the break-up. 

Also, she fears she will hurt the sweet, gentle Patrick. 


Will the love, joy, and goodwill of the holiday season coupled 

with the many long-time holiday customs and Curry family 

traditions help Betsy to find herself again? Will she be strong 

enough to lift herself out of her self-induced prison so that 

she can take another chance on love ? 

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