Bright Lights, Big Christmas, Mary Kay Andrews
Bright Lights, Big Christmas, Mary Kay Andrews
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Bright Lights, Big Christmas
A Novel

Bestseller

Author: Mary Kay Andrews

Narrator: Kathleen McInerney

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2023


Synopsis

Narrator Kathleen McInerney will have listeners believing in miracles.” —AudioFile on The Santa Suit

From Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Homewreckers and The Santa Suit, comes a novella celebrating love and the warm, glittering charm of the holiday season.

"Nobody does Christmas like Mary Kay Andrews." ―Debbie Macomber

"Cozy up with Santa's favorite novelist!” ―Adriana Trigiani

When fall rolls around, it’s time for Kerry Tolliver to leave her family’s Christmas tree farm in the mountains of North Carolina for the wilds of New York City to help her gruff older brother & his dog, Queenie, sell the trees at the family stand on a corner in Greenwich Village. Sharing a tiny vintage camper and experiencing Manhattan for the first time, Kerry’s ready to try to carve out a new corner for herself.

In the weeks leading into Christmas, Kerry quickly becomes close with the charming neighbors who live near their stand. When an elderly neighbor goes missing, Kerry will need to combine her country know-how with her newly acquired New York knowledge to protect the new friends she’s come to think of as family,

And complicating everything is Patrick, a single dad raising his adorable, dragon-loving son Austin on this quirky block. Kerry and Patrick’s chemistry is undeniable, but what chance does this holiday romance really have?

Filled with family ties, both rekindled and new, and sparkling with Christmas magic, BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CHRISTMAS delivers everything Mary Kay Andrews fans adore, all tied up in a hilarious, romantic gem of a novel.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

About Mary Kay Andrews

MARY KAY ANDREWS is The New York Times bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big Christmas, The Homewreckers, The Santa Suit, The Newcomer, Hello, Summer, Sunset Beach. The High Tide Club, The Beach House Cookbook, The Weekenders, Beach Town, Save the Date, Ladies’ Night, Christmas Bliss, Spring Fever, Summer Rental, The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and Savannah Blues. A former journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, she lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

About Kathleen McInerney

Kathleen McInerney has narrated numerous audiobooks by bestselling authors such as Emily Giffin, Danielle Steel, Jeffrey Stepakoff, Mary Kay Andrews, and Linda Castillo. Her narration of Just One Day by Gayle Forman won an AudioFile Earphones Award. In reviewing Mary Kay Andrew’s Ladies’ Night, AudioFile magazine said, “McInerney makes each of the characters distinct and recognizable and gives each the perfect voice, accent, and vocal mannerisms. Most enjoyable and well performed.” She has appeared onstage in New York and around the United States in both classical and contemporary theater. Her credits also include television commercials, daytime drama, radio plays, and animation voice-overs.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mary on June 29, 2023

Bright Lights Big Christmas is me, offering my readers a hot cocoa hug of a happy holiday story. I hope they enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.......more

Goodreads review by Heather on November 16, 2024

Mehh......more

Goodreads review by Abbie on December 11, 2024

FINALLY!!! A *cozy Christmas* book that didn’t make me roll my eyes every 5 pages!! I loved the Christmas in NYC-feel + the sort of silly but also sort of “real” twist to it. The romance piece was perfectly in the background (without being too much) of a really heartwarming story, and I was fully cr......more

Goodreads review by Kristy on September 28, 2023

Be warned... this review may make me sound slightly like a Grinch. I love holiday movies and the whole season, but I think I need to acknowledge that holiday books are not my thing. Somehow the schmaltz works in film form for me but not in a literary format. Not that this is a bad book, at all, and......more

Goodreads review by Heather Adores Books on December 15, 2023

4⭐ Genre ~ holiday fiction Setting ~ NYC Publication date ~ September 26, 2023 Est page Count ~ 285 (54 chapters) Audio length ~ 8 hours 8 minutes Narrator ~ Kathleen McInerney POV ~ single 3rd Featuring ~ Christmas, small business, no steamage Every year Kerry's brother and father go to NYC to sell Christm......more


Quotes

"Andrews (The Santa Suit) serves up a Christmas treat in this sparkling tale." —Publishers Weekly

"Nobody owns Christmas like Santa's favorite novelist, Mary Kay Andrews. With wit, wisdom and the occasional tangle of tinsel, North Carolina native Kerry Tolliver reinvents her life as she sells Christmas trees from a beloved camper in the glittering heart of New York City. Grab the eggnog and the cookies and cozy up in Greenwich Village with Bright Lights, Big Christmas for big fun." —Adriana Trigiani

“From a magical Santa suit, to a Christmas tree stand in the heart of New York, to a neighborhood full of quirky characters, and the smell of fresh cut pine Christmas trees, nobody does Christmas like Mary Kay Andrews.” —Debbie Macomber