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Για τη Σόφι Μπέκγουιθ, τα φετινά Χριστούγεννα σήμαιναν πως θα έπρεπε να συναντήσει ξανά τον άντρα που την είχε εγκαταλείψει για να παντρευτεί την αδελφή της! Ο μόνος που μπορούσε να βοηθήσει ήταν ο Μπραμ, ο παλιός καλός της φίλος και πρώην μνηστήρας της αδελφής της!
Ο Μπραμ σκαρφίστηκε ένα τρελό σχέδιο, έκανε πρόταση γάμου στη Σόφι! Αν τους έπειθαν πως ήταν ερωτευμένοι και πως σχεδίαζαν να παντρευτούν, οι μέρες των γιορτών θα περνούσαν για όλους ήσυχα και ευτυχισμένα.
Πολύ σύντομα, όμως, τα αισθήματα της Σόφι για τον Μπραμ, άλλαξαν δραστικά: Τον ερωτεύτηκε! Και τώρα ευχόταν ο γάμος τους να γινόταν στ' αλήθεια ...
Για τη Σόφι Μπέκγουιθ, τα φετινά Χριστούγεννα σήμαιναν πως θα έπρεπε να συναντήσει ξανά τον άντρα που την είχε εγκαταλείψει για να παντρευτεί την αδελφή της! Ο μόνος που μπορούσε να βοηθήσει ήταν ο Μπραμ, ο παλιός καλός της φίλος και πρώην μνηστήρας της αδελφής της!
Ο Μπραμ σκαρφίστηκε ένα τρελό σχέδιο, έκανε πρόταση γάμου στη Σόφι! Αν τους έπειθαν πως ήταν ερωτευμένοι και πως σχεδίαζαν να παντρευτούν, οι μέρες των γιορτών θα περνούσαν για όλους ήσυχα και ευτυχισμένα.
Πολύ σύντομα, όμως, τα αισθήματα της Σόφι για τον Μπραμ, άλλαξαν δραστικά: Τον ερωτεύτηκε! Και τώρα ευχόταν ο γάμος τους να γινόταν στ' αλήθεια ...
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
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About the author
Jessica Hart
486 books136 followersAfter a haphazard career spent working and travelling around the world, I stumbled into romance writing as a way to fund a PhD. My first book, A Sweeter Prejudice, came out in 1991, and since then I've written a further 59 books, some of which have won awards in the US and the UK.
I live in York, a historic city in the north of England, and waste the best part of my days planning trips away or on Facebook and Twitter, both of which mean that I end up writing late into the night. As well as romance, I write 'time slips' as Pamela Hartshorne, and am a freelance project editor and occasional writing tutor.
In May 2013 I will publishing the Jessica Hart Vintage Collection of five of my early books from the 90s.
For news of forthcoming books and exclusive offers, do sign up for my newsletter: email jessica@jessicahart.co.uk or come and find me on Facebook.
I live in York, a historic city in the north of England, and waste the best part of my days planning trips away or on Facebook and Twitter, both of which mean that I end up writing late into the night. As well as romance, I write 'time slips' as Pamela Hartshorne, and am a freelance project editor and occasional writing tutor.
In May 2013 I will publishing the Jessica Hart Vintage Collection of five of my early books from the 90s.
For news of forthcoming books and exclusive offers, do sign up for my newsletter: email jessica@jessicahart.co.uk or come and find me on Facebook.
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December 19, 2018
Time constraints meant I needed a quick read for this month’s TBR Challenge, and Jessica Hart’s Mistletoe Marriage (from 2005) proved to be just the thing. It’s a charming, well-written and absorbing friends-to-lovers story set in the weeks before Christmas featuring a couple of engaging principals and a bit – not too much - angst. I lapped it up in a couple of sittings one afternoon and came away from it with a happy sigh.
Bram and Sophie have been friends forever and are still besties, even though Sophie now lives and works in London and Bram works his small farm on the North Yorkshire Moors. Sophie’s parents own a neighbouring farm, and she’s visiting for the weekend – taking the chance to do so knowing her sister Melissa and her new husband, Nick, are away so she won’t run into them. Sophie and Nick had been engaged before she introduced him to Melissa – and even though she doesn’t resent her sister – or Nick - for falling in love, Sophie hasn’t been able to forget the way she’d felt when she was with Nick or move on. She also finds it difficult to cope with the fact that her conversations with Melissa always end up revolving around her guilt for ‘stealing’ Nick, and usually leave Sophie exhausted from the effort of trying to make her sister feel better.
With Christmas approaching, Sophie’s mother is pressuring Sophie to come home for the festivities and to see Melissa and Nick, whom she hasn’t seen since their wedding. Sophie never told her parents about Nick, so they have no idea of the truth of the situation, and with it being her father’s seventieth birthday a couple of days before Christmas her mother is really turning the emotional thumbscrews to get Sophie to agree to visit and stay with them. Feeling guilty, tired and miserable, Sophie heads up to Haw Gill Farm to see Bram to pour out her woes. He’s always been easy to talk to, and his steady, dependable presence has never failed to bring her comfort.
During the course of a conversation in which they commiserate about the state of their love-lives (and the lack thereof), Sophie jokingly says she wishes she could marry Bram – and to her shock, he says that it’s not a bad idea. They know each other better than anyone else, Sophie understands the rhythms of life on a farm and Bram needs help; it might not be a grand passion but they’d have friendship, comfort and companionship and they’d both know where they stand.
Surprised, Sophie finds herself actually considering the idea – before rejecting it, telling Bram he deserves someone “who believes in you and loves you completely for yourself” and that he shouldn’t settle for second best. Bram can’t disagree with her – but is somewhat taken aback to realise he’s actually disappointed at her refusal.
Not long after this, when Sophie is back in her poky flat in London, she’s on the phone to Melissa, suffering through yet another of her sister’s guilt trips when the conversation turns to Bram and the possibility that he might be seeing an old acquaintance who has recently been dumped by her fiancé – and it’s too much for Sophie. What with having to try to tiptoe around her sister’s upset and her own strangely conflicting feelings about Bram, she snaps and tells Melissa that she and Bram are getting married.
Oops.
Okay, so this story isn’t going to win any prizes for originality, but it’s a fine example of a fake relationship/friends-to-lovers tale. The characters are swiftly and skilfully drawn, and the author makes it easy to believe in the long-standing friendship between Bram and Sophie; their affection for one another and deep mutual understanding just leaps off the page. The book does have flaws – Nick is such a prick that it’s difficult to understand exactly why Sophie was so much in love with him, and there’s just a teeny bit of the martyr about Sophie in her tendency to give way to Melissa and believe herself to be somehow second-best – but those are really minor concerns. The big thing for me in any friends-to-lovers story, is the way the author handles the Key Moment –the one where the friends realise they’re seeing each other as if for the first time and that he/she is gorgeous – and Jessica Hart does a great job with that, showing readers several small moments of realisation and growing attraction, as Bram and Sophie start to realise they’re seeing each other in a new light. It’s a quiet, character-driven story; there’s no drawn-out Big Mis or unnecessary angst - the tangled relationships between Sophie, Melissa, Nick and Bram (a decade earlier, Bram and Melissa had been briefly engaged and Sophie worries he might still be carrying a torch for her sister) create enough tension to propel the story - and thankfully, Bram and Sophie are sufficiently mature and attuned to each other to not allow their niggling doubts to go unaddressed for too long.
Mistletoe Marriage is a quick, but satisfying read, Bram and Sophie are very likeable principals and their romance is easy to invest in. It proved to be an excellent way to while away a couple of hours on a cold winter’s afternoon.
Bram and Sophie have been friends forever and are still besties, even though Sophie now lives and works in London and Bram works his small farm on the North Yorkshire Moors. Sophie’s parents own a neighbouring farm, and she’s visiting for the weekend – taking the chance to do so knowing her sister Melissa and her new husband, Nick, are away so she won’t run into them. Sophie and Nick had been engaged before she introduced him to Melissa – and even though she doesn’t resent her sister – or Nick - for falling in love, Sophie hasn’t been able to forget the way she’d felt when she was with Nick or move on. She also finds it difficult to cope with the fact that her conversations with Melissa always end up revolving around her guilt for ‘stealing’ Nick, and usually leave Sophie exhausted from the effort of trying to make her sister feel better.
With Christmas approaching, Sophie’s mother is pressuring Sophie to come home for the festivities and to see Melissa and Nick, whom she hasn’t seen since their wedding. Sophie never told her parents about Nick, so they have no idea of the truth of the situation, and with it being her father’s seventieth birthday a couple of days before Christmas her mother is really turning the emotional thumbscrews to get Sophie to agree to visit and stay with them. Feeling guilty, tired and miserable, Sophie heads up to Haw Gill Farm to see Bram to pour out her woes. He’s always been easy to talk to, and his steady, dependable presence has never failed to bring her comfort.
During the course of a conversation in which they commiserate about the state of their love-lives (and the lack thereof), Sophie jokingly says she wishes she could marry Bram – and to her shock, he says that it’s not a bad idea. They know each other better than anyone else, Sophie understands the rhythms of life on a farm and Bram needs help; it might not be a grand passion but they’d have friendship, comfort and companionship and they’d both know where they stand.
Surprised, Sophie finds herself actually considering the idea – before rejecting it, telling Bram he deserves someone “who believes in you and loves you completely for yourself” and that he shouldn’t settle for second best. Bram can’t disagree with her – but is somewhat taken aback to realise he’s actually disappointed at her refusal.
Not long after this, when Sophie is back in her poky flat in London, she’s on the phone to Melissa, suffering through yet another of her sister’s guilt trips when the conversation turns to Bram and the possibility that he might be seeing an old acquaintance who has recently been dumped by her fiancé – and it’s too much for Sophie. What with having to try to tiptoe around her sister’s upset and her own strangely conflicting feelings about Bram, she snaps and tells Melissa that she and Bram are getting married.
Oops.
Okay, so this story isn’t going to win any prizes for originality, but it’s a fine example of a fake relationship/friends-to-lovers tale. The characters are swiftly and skilfully drawn, and the author makes it easy to believe in the long-standing friendship between Bram and Sophie; their affection for one another and deep mutual understanding just leaps off the page. The book does have flaws – Nick is such a prick that it’s difficult to understand exactly why Sophie was so much in love with him, and there’s just a teeny bit of the martyr about Sophie in her tendency to give way to Melissa and believe herself to be somehow second-best – but those are really minor concerns. The big thing for me in any friends-to-lovers story, is the way the author handles the Key Moment –the one where the friends realise they’re seeing each other as if for the first time and that he/she is gorgeous – and Jessica Hart does a great job with that, showing readers several small moments of realisation and growing attraction, as Bram and Sophie start to realise they’re seeing each other in a new light. It’s a quiet, character-driven story; there’s no drawn-out Big Mis or unnecessary angst - the tangled relationships between Sophie, Melissa, Nick and Bram (a decade earlier, Bram and Melissa had been briefly engaged and Sophie worries he might still be carrying a torch for her sister) create enough tension to propel the story - and thankfully, Bram and Sophie are sufficiently mature and attuned to each other to not allow their niggling doubts to go unaddressed for too long.
Mistletoe Marriage is a quick, but satisfying read, Bram and Sophie are very likeable principals and their romance is easy to invest in. It proved to be an excellent way to while away a couple of hours on a cold winter’s afternoon.
December 26, 2017
¿Cómo das paso a la pasión después de años de amistad?
Sophie y Bram han sido amigos de toda la vida, se conocen mejor que nadie y se confían todos sus secretos. Cuando a Sophie le llega el momento de enfrentarse a un ex-amor que logró romperle el corazón, Bram le hace una proposición fuera de toda lógica. Le pide que se case con él. A sus ojos es lo más normal, quiere tener esposa, hijos y alguien que sea su apoyo, después de que la hermana menor de Sophie rompiera su compromiso con él 10 años atrás, Bram no había logrado amar a nadie más.
Después de que él pronunció esas palabras, todo cambió. ¿Cómo no fijarse ahora en que su boca era completamente atractiva o que sus músculos se marcaban en la camisa mientras trabajaban? ¿Cómo negarse si vivir juntos para ellos era tan natural como respirar?
A veces los mejores amores salen de una sólida amistad.
Sophie y Bram han sido amigos de toda la vida, se conocen mejor que nadie y se confían todos sus secretos. Cuando a Sophie le llega el momento de enfrentarse a un ex-amor que logró romperle el corazón, Bram le hace una proposición fuera de toda lógica. Le pide que se case con él. A sus ojos es lo más normal, quiere tener esposa, hijos y alguien que sea su apoyo, después de que la hermana menor de Sophie rompiera su compromiso con él 10 años atrás, Bram no había logrado amar a nadie más.
Después de que él pronunció esas palabras, todo cambió. ¿Cómo no fijarse ahora en que su boca era completamente atractiva o que sus músculos se marcaban en la camisa mientras trabajaban? ¿Cómo negarse si vivir juntos para ellos era tan natural como respirar?
A veces los mejores amores salen de una sólida amistad.
July 22, 2020
Another book I DNF and was quite a let down because I really enjoy Ms Hart's books. The h was a selfish brat. Did not warm up to her. I think Hart tried to portray her as boho-chic but yeah she was just trailer-park.
H was awesome, I wish I could find myself a large, silent, dreamy farmer or rancher, but I digress. I'm just happy he's happy with fleabag!
H was awesome, I wish I could find myself a large, silent, dreamy farmer or rancher, but I digress. I'm just happy he's happy with fleabag!
August 19, 2019
Comunicación, la clave en toda las novelas románticas es la comunicación.
February 20, 2023
A nice, easy going romance in a setting of log fires, snow, tractors and a Yorkshire farm.
January 17, 2026
A light hearted easy read, with likeable characters set against the background of the North Yorkshire Moors.
For Sophie, currently living in London, this Christmas spelt the prospect of meeting again her ex fiancé who dumped her and promptly married her sister Melissa. Only her long term friend and confidente Bram, a quiet, taciturn neighbouring farmer, could help her . And he proposed to Sophie that they should get engaged to show they have moved on, and also appease her mother, critical of her lack of boyfriends. The story follows how Sophie’s feelings gradually changes as she comes to view Bram. A bit slow in parts with as a fair bit of repetition, and of course a very predictable end. But a pleasant read, nevertheless.
For Sophie, currently living in London, this Christmas spelt the prospect of meeting again her ex fiancé who dumped her and promptly married her sister Melissa. Only her long term friend and confidente Bram, a quiet, taciturn neighbouring farmer, could help her . And he proposed to Sophie that they should get engaged to show they have moved on, and also appease her mother, critical of her lack of boyfriends. The story follows how Sophie’s feelings gradually changes as she comes to view Bram. A bit slow in parts with as a fair bit of repetition, and of course a very predictable end. But a pleasant read, nevertheless.
December 22, 2014
A lovely friends-to-lovers romance. Heroine still reeling when the man she thought was The One throws her over for her sister is emotionally blackmailed by Mom to spend Christmas at home. Where she can spend time watching her former flame and baby sister making googly-eyes at each other. Uh, no thanks. Coming to her aid? The hero, her BFF since childhood. A quiet romance, free of over-the-top angsy shenanigans. The perfect antidote for Alphahole heroes wallowing in Dudebro Emo.
March 22, 2016
Read it for an essay.
I did not really enjoy it to be honest, and I'm kinda sad that this is the first book that I finish this year. The conception of marriage seemed all wrong.
Quick and easy to read tho.
Also, Nick is aweful and needs to die.
I did not really enjoy it to be honest, and I'm kinda sad that this is the first book that I finish this year. The conception of marriage seemed all wrong.
Quick and easy to read tho.
Also, Nick is aweful and needs to die.
September 18, 2016
Utterly predictable but a great pick-me-up! I've always loved the chic lit story where the friends start to fall in love with each other. It's giddy and dreamy.
Also, Nick should be set on fire.
Also, Nick should be set on fire.
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December 25, 2016Cute Christmas romance ... very easy reading.
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