This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.
With 37 days to go until Christmas we know it’s a smidge too early to be breaking out the tinsel and mulled wine, but we can’t help ourselves. It’s the most wonderful time of the year with the most wonderful selection of books and we’re super excited to bring you a very festive Novelicious Book Club in November and December to celebrate.
Are your snuggly Rudolph socks all warmed up with nowhere to go? Have you been waiting for the perfect Christmas read to get you into the spirit of the season? Yes? Then without further ado, it’s time to announce that this month’s book club pick is The Little Christmas Kitchen by Jenny Oliver!
Here’s what the book is about: 
Christmas at the Davenports’ house was always about one thing: food!
But when sisters Ella and Maddy were split up, Ella to live in London with their Dad, and Maddy staying in Greece with their Mum, mince pies lost their magic.
Now, a cheating husband has thrown Ella a curved snowball…and for the first time in years, all she wants is her mum. So she heads back to Greece, where her family’s taverna holds all the promise of home. Meanwhile, waitress Maddy’s dreams of a white Christmas lead her back to London…and her Dad.
But a big fat festive life-swap isn’t as easy as it sounds! And as the sisters trade one kitchen for another, it suddenly seems that among the cinnamon, cranberries and icing sugar, their recipes for a perfect Christmas might be missing a crucial ingredient: each other.
So, do you want to be in our novel reading, mince pie eating, reindeer onesie wearing book club of a gang?
Grab a copy of The Little Christmas Kitchen and join the club conversation by sharing your thoughts (no spoilers!) on the book here in the comments, on social media or on your own blog with the #NoveliciousBookClub hashtag.
Whether it’s by getting busy in the kitchen and making recipes from the book, instagramming pictures of yourselves reading in your pajamas, tweeting character analyses or creating pretty images featuring favourite quotes, the idea is to get creative and have fun!
We’ll be retweeting and sharing your contributions all month.
On Thursday 18 December at 8pm you can join us on Twitter and Facebook for a live #NoveliciousBookClub discussion (in between drinking wine and eating mince pies). There will be a few treats and surprises along the way for club members, too, so be sure to let us know you're participating!
Will you be joining in this month? What do you think of the book pick? Let us know in the comments and don't forget to leave your Twitter handle or blog address so we can keep up with you throughout the month. You can come and say howdy and share your initial thoughts on The Little Christmas Kitchen on Twitter this evening, too, where we’ll be starting the book along with you.