'I love all of Sue Moorcroft's books!'Katie Fforde The #1 bestseller returns with an irresistibly festive tale that you won't be able to put down! Alexia Kennedy – interior decorator extraordinaire – has been tasked with giving the little village of Middledip the community café it's always dreamed of. After months of fundraising, the villagers can't wait to see work get started – but disaster strikes when every last penny is stolen. With Middledip up in arms at how this could have happened, Alexia feels ready to admit defeat. But help comes in an unlikely form when woodsman, Ben Hardaker and his rescue owl Barney, arrive on the scene. Another lost soul who's hit rock bottom, Ben and Alexia make an unlikely partnership. However, they soon realise that a little sprinkling of Christmas magic might just help to bring this village – and their lives – together again... Readers love The Little Village Christmas... 'Left me with a warm and fuzzy festive feeling' the Bookbag 'The Little Village Christmas is Sue Moorcroft at her very best, with exceptional plotting, wonderful settings and vibrant, flawed and believable characters whom I'd love to meet in real life' Linda's Bookbag 'A beautifully written and planned out book, which should be high on your list of Christmas reading. I can't recommend it highly enough' Novel Kicks 'Sue Moorcroft is wonderfully skilled at exploring relationships between characters and resolving issues where nothing is black and white, letting readers get to know and love even minor characters in the story' My Weekly