BY THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Delve inside this CHRISTMAS STOCKING choc-full of perfectly themed, never-before-published seasonal short stories perfect for anyone who loves romance, humour and happy-ever-after endings.

This book is an absolute page turner and will never fail to impress.

A wonderful and magical Christmas read! Katie Fforde has done it again with six seasonal stories you’ll be transformed into a world of romance, humor and happy ever-afters.

Gloriously festive… beautiful anthology…Every single one will remind you why this time of year is referred to as the most wonderful of them all. You’ll be decking the halls and feeling jolly before you know it.

The Sunday Times Top 10 romance story legend will warm the cockles of your heart with this heady cocktail of festive season tales.

perfect for anyone who loves romance, humour and happy-ever-after endings

An ideal gift for someone to find in their stocking on Christmas morning.

Katie Fforde's short stories burst with warmth and good cheer… Pure enjoyment, and indulgent pleasure!

perfect for anyone who loves romance, humour and happy-ever-after endings.

Katie is a fantastic author and she really knows how to get you in the Christmassy feels.

A wonderfully festive Christmas collection

Wonderfully festive… The perfect gift for Christmas

Katie Fforde gives the reader a real treat with this book. The stories are full of warmth, magic, love, friendship, mince pies and mulled wine! So if you are looking for a book to dip in and out of in between wrapping presents and putting decorations up then look no further!

the perfect antidote to seasonal stress

If you're looking for an escape from the rush of busy shopping centres, then take a breather and enjoy a short break with The Christmas Stocking and Other Stories.

This gorgeous festive selection fills every criteria of a perfect Christmas read

A manifestly gifted writer

Astonishing-turns Don Quixote into Picasso

The realism of Groff’s stories is matched by her lyricism: botanical details and evocations of weather give her prose an addictive quality

There are panthers, snakes and hurricanes heading in the direction of the angry, lonely characters in Lauren Groff's vivid stories, but the greatest threat comes from their own unwieldy feelings, as doubt, regret and dissatisfaction scupper all notions of emotional security.

Lush, and tinged with paranoia…[Groff] should be better known in Britain.

My god, can Lauren Groff write or what?! ... This short story collection showcases a master craftswoman whose sentences reverberate with depth and power.

[A] strikingly vivid Florida of the mind…an extraordinary trip for the reader.

Groff's writing is clever, caustic yet with a mother's tender sensibility. And such powers of description!... I was blown away!

Superb stories.

Lyrical, lacerating collection.

Groff's writing is superb and she captures her characters eccentricities or their bizarre situations perfectly. There are laugh out loud moments with some parts that were odd and some even creepy. Everyone who will read this collection will definitely get something out of it.

Groff's mastery of language, plot and dialogue are on full display in a set of stories that linger long after you've closed the last page.

[A] masterclass in writing about the edges of everyday life. This collection of short stories that all link to the Sunshine State captures loneliness, alienation, abandonment and inner resourcefulness in the most creative of tales.

Fantastical tales ... You'll be swept up in a wild hurricane of a ride with this lyrical stories of fury and love, loss and hope.

Each story is perfectly formed, exquisite, often troubling but there is something so brilliantly humane about her work.

The five darkly comic stories that comprise The Largesse of the Sea Maiden are befitting final testaments to [Johnson’s] wild originality... His sentences, like his plots, are full of gorgeous little shocks.