The Christmas Dress by Courtney Cole-Review

About The Book

An enchanted Christmas dress brings two generations of women together for the magic of the season in this delightful holiday story from New York Times bestselling author Courtney Cole. 

One Dress. Two Women. The Magic of the Holiday Season.

When hopeful fashionista Meg Julliard must return to her hometown of Chicago to manage her late father’s apartment building, she thinks her dreams of making it in the fashion business are over. Add in her father’s eclectic roster of tenants who all need Meg’s attention (ASAP!), a host of building related disasters, and a handsome handyman she keeps embarrassing herself in front of, and this has all the makings for the worst Christmas she’s ever had.

Ellie Wade, one of the building’s longtime residents, is also not feeling the Christmas Joy this year. She is preparing to move into a nursing home (reluctantly), and is in the process of sorting through her belongings to downsize. Every corner of her apartment holds memories, some good, some bad. But there’s one dress she hesitates to pack up as it represents both the best and worst night of her life.

Ellie and Meg strike up an unlikely friendship and the story of Ellie’s dress comes out. Ellie gifts the gorgeous dress to Meg, hoping that it will bring her more luck, on the condition that she wear it to the building’s Christmas party.

The dress magically fits, and while it eventually leads to the best night of Meg’s life, it also acts as inspiration for Meg to follow a life-long dream of her own, a dream that will help save the crumbling Parkview West, and restore it to its former glory, and keep it as a safe home for all of the current tenants.

The dress and the magic of the holiday season helps both Meg and Ellie find their own happy endings. 

My Review

One Dress. Two Women. The Magic of the Holiday Season.
What an absolutely delightful and heartwarming Christmas story!
It makes you feel good deep down inside.
After the death of her father, whom she didn’t get a chance to visit nearly enough in recent times Meg is in for an eye opening experience. She inherits her father’s Chicago based senior citizen apartment building. This is the last thing she wants to do is take responsibility for this building with it’s many financial needs. All of the seniors speak so highly of her father though and so does his assistant.
Meeting apartment dweller Ellie Wade, Meg quickly sees this woman for the gem she is.
Ellie is sad this holiday season though as she’s moving into a nursing home soon and her memories are all tied up in her apartment and her belongings.
A gorgeous Christmas dress from many years ago that she’s unearthed with sorting her belongings represents both the best and worst night of her life.
Now Meg is in the fashion design business and realizes the dress for the quality it is.
So many emotions are brought to the forefront in this book as we see the highs of lows of it’s characters. We see Meg competing in a fashion show with her fashionable timeless designs.
The women have a dream to restore the apartment building to it’s former historic glory and the inspiration from this special Christmas dress may be just what they need to do it.
Lively and uplifting. I recommend this book.

Pub Date 09 Nov 2021
I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.

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About The Author

Courtney Cole is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling novelist who would rather write than eat chocolate. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business, but no amount of working in the corporate world could quell her urge to write.

Courtney was born and raised in Kansas, home of incredibly friendly people and the most horrendous weather on the planet. Because summer days were so hot, she grew up reading stacks of books… and when she didn’t like the ending, she wrote her own.

Courtney has relocated to Florida where she writes beneath palm trees. To learn more about her, please visit her website, http://www.courtneycolewrites.com To sign up for her newsletter and receive exclusive sneak peeks and super-fan perks, go here: http://smarturl.it/CourtneyColeEmail

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