A secret of mine is the Hallmark-style Christmas movies because I'm a romantic at heart and I thought Christmas Every Day was going to be a paperback version of that but damn! It was so much more than what I thought would be the whole crazy way for a boy meets girl story with lots of snow.

Jenny's life has gone seven shades of crazy, and she finds herself at her late Grandmother's ramshackle cottage in the middle of nowhere. She has absolutely nothing, struggling to afford the basics to rebuild a home that truly sounds like it needs to be brought down and rebuilt because it's been left to rot for decades. But salvation comes in the most bizarre of ways when she becomes a nanny to five hyperactive children who run her ragged but breathe light into her life along with their wonderfully supportive parents who give her salvation when she truly needs it. She needs to learn to live again, to escape the shadows of the hurt and betrayal she's experienced at the hands of her lying ex-boyfriend and ex-boss and sister who has spent their lives making Jenny feel broken. Rebuilding her home and her life has her crossing paths with her grumpy neighbour who just wants quiet - and Jenny is anything but that.

It's a perfect read for a December day, Beth Moran has created a wonderful world and fantastic characters who I would love to meet and join their book club because each and every one of them jumped from the page with a loud hello and a zest for life in their own way. There are moments you will laugh, you will cry (trust me) and when your skin will crawl - seriously the cottage is a death trap waiting to claim Jenny and never let her go.

I couldn't help but love Jenny, and I would love to see this story be brought to life (because seriously it's Hallmark worthy) so I could watch it all unfold all over again.

Wanting a Christmas read to laugh and cry over? This is for you...