The Santa Suit, Mary Kay Andrews
The Santa Suit, Mary Kay Andrews
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The Santa Suit
A Novel

Bestseller

Author: Mary Kay Andrews

Narrator: Kathleen McInerney

Unabridged: 5 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2021


Synopsis

"Narrator Kathleen McInerney will have listeners believing in miracles - or miracles in Tarburton, North Carolina, at least - where divorcée Ivy Jenkins has just purchased Four Roses Farm sight unseen." -AudioFile Magazine

From Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit.

When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love—but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much junk, that it's a full-time job sorting through all of it.

At the top of a closet, Ivy finds an old Santa suit—beautifully made and decades old. In the pocket of a suit she finds a note written in a childish hand: it's from a little girl who has one Christmas wish, and that is for her father to return home from the war. This discovery sets Ivy off on a mission. Who wrote the note? Did the man ever come home? What mysteries did the Rose family hold?

Ivy's quest brings her into the community, at a time when all she wanted to do was be left alone and nurse her wounds. But the magic of Christmas makes miracles happen, and Ivy just might find more than she ever thought possible: a welcoming town, a family reunited, a mystery solved, and a second chance at love.

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

I’m so proud of this book about a woman who, following her divorce, decides she needs to start over in a new place. She buys an old white farmhouse in the mountains of North Carolina—sight unseen.. On her first night at Four Roses Farm Ivey Perkins finds an old Santa Claus suit—with a crumpled note......more

Goodreads review by Regina

If you’ve been bingeing Hallmark Christmas movies since the day after Halloween, it’s time for a break. Go out and take a walk. Call a friend. Read a book! I’ll make that last directive easy for you and suggest you pick up Mary Kay Andrews’s brand new holiday novella, The Santa Suit. At a mere 224 pa......more

A delightful little novella that I brought on vacation with me and quickly finished. Mary Kay Andrews delivers once again. I could easily see this turned into a Hallmark Christmas movie. It's all the old cliches here but that's ok. It always works in a Christmas story. Ivy Perkins is starting over aft......more