Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #260628 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11-04
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 168 pages

Synopsis
Christmas 2003 is approaching fast but festive thoughts are at least put on hold with the distraction of the Rugby World Cup as England is gripped by sporting fever. As the cheers of the victory homecoming parade begin to diminish, for one group of Brits there is the chance to rekindle their seasonal spirit when given the chance to visit a modern Christmas idyll. The prestigious Snow Lodge in Lapland plays host to a very diverse party - two amateur radio DJ's, a fading rock star and his faithful hippy roadie, an easy going marketing manager and his fiery senior executive girlfriend plus a sharp tongued lonely pensioner and his Santa suit. Spurred on by a suave entrepreneur, and with a bubbly entertainment manager in tow, the unlikely group undertake the trip of a lifetime -- a very unique snow trek. Stranded in the middle of nowhere, the group have no choice but to work together to survive for it is time for them to learn who they really are. Christmas will never be the same again.

Customer Reviews

A Unique Modern Tale
I really liked this story which I think perfectly captures the mood of Christmas with some larger than life characters. Hats off to the author.

A Unique Christmas
It's Cold Outside - The book starts with several mini-chapters to introduce the main characters and we quickly get to know the two local radio Disc Jockeys (Justin and Fi), who I am sure come straight out of my local radio station, a bored (and boring) middle aged businessman (Gary) and his aggressive high flying partner and senior office manager (Rosa), a has-been Eighties pop star (Dan) and his mate and Roadie (Drag) + finally a retired chauffeur (Cameron). We get to understand a little about the characters during the background of the 2003 Rugby World Cup before events conspire to take them all to Lapland just before Christmas. Our protagonists then combine to embark on a snow adventure and end up getting lost, finding refuge in a traveller's Wilderness Hit. We then truly get to know the characters as events conspire to forge and mould all of their futures. We also see a surreal touch before an ending a year on that warms the heart.




All in all this was a very enjoyable book. I am assuming the author is a Rugby fan in choosing to base the early chapters around the events of England's rugby world cup victory. Very brave but it did tend to take over at times. The actual characters are very strong and you do end up caring about them and really liking some of them, in fact another criticism is that I feel the story could have been extended somewhat with more detail about some of the characters. I really enjoyed the Lapland part of the book and would say it was as good a piece of writing as I have read for some time. This is a Christmas story with a difference



Jakie Moore

Good light fun
Having just watched England take a good clubbing in the rugby I took some comfort from reading this book. The first half was all set during the 2003 rugby world cup so I was able to cast my mind back to the good ol' days when we weren't rubbish.
There's plenty of very funny moments in this book, but it really serves well as a character piece. I got really into the relationships between the main players and I liked the fact I didn't really know what would happen, or who would end up with who.
Probably a good holiday read, but certainly not bad as a comfort read for us rugby nuts.