Christmas Past, John Adcox
Christmas Past, John Adcox
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Christmas Past
A Ghostly Winter Tale

Author: John Adcox

Narrator: Abigail Reno

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The winter holiday season is a time for gifts and music, for snow and miracles, and for family and going home. For Jessie Malone, it's a time for sorrow.
Jessie is a graduate student living in London, where she hopes to be one of the first folklorists ever to trace an urban legend back to its original source. She's also a grieving young widow unable to heal from the agony of her life-shattering loss. 
In the bleak midwinter, Jessie learns of an urban legend about a lonely, wandering ghost, a British sailor named Sam who promised his bride that he'd be home for Christmas. The legends say he's been trying to make it back to her since World War II.
As she investigates, Jessie learns that Sam's story defies the patterns of how urban legends are supposed to work. It's a puzzle she can't let go. To solve the mystery, she must confront the impossible and, just perhaps, discover a miracle of Christmas love that survives beyond the grave.
A story that will engage all your emotions, Christmas Past bursts with wonder, enigma, romance, and the unquenchable spirit that comes from promises that must be kept.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Luvtoread (Trying to catch up) on December 17, 2021

Jessie Malone is a graduate student living in London while studying folklore and how to trace the history of a myth back to it's source which is what she is trying to write her dissertation on. The Christmas 🎄 holidays are coming up and her family is pleading for Jessie to come home (U.S.) for their......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on December 24, 2022

This was a very sweet, emotional book about how true love never dies and a Christmas miracle. I really enjoyed this book.......more

Goodreads review by Maryann on November 30, 2021

Christmas Past is a delightful holiday book. Beautifully written by Adcox, and beautifully illustrated by Bales, the story follows Jessie as she works through both her research for her doctoral thesis in Cultural Anthropology and her grief following the death of her beloved husband, David. It is the......more

Goodreads review by Julie on November 09, 2021

Christmas Past A Ghostly Winter Tale by John Adcox Had not realized this was the next in a series I had read. Story takes place in London during the Christmas holiday and she keeps David's picture on her night table, still NOT being able to say goodbye to him. An urban legend of the holiday and she del......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on January 01, 2022

Can a Christmas story avoid quaintness? That’s a difficult question. It seems some quaintness is innate. And most of that tends to veer into schmaltziness. It’s just ever so twee, the heartwarming aspects of it all. Even with ghosts, you ask? Yes, even with ghosts. But then again, I do love to read......more