Visiting the blog today is the best-selling author of The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard, Robert Bryndza. I must admit, I laughed out loud reading this prequel (I got a few funny looks on the bus, believe me). A Very Coco Christmas introduces us to 18-year-old Coco, who’s home from university for the Christmas holidays with her sexy new boyfriend, Daniel Pinchard.
But the course of true love doesn’t run smooth. Coco’s new boyfriend elicits her mother’s disapproval, leading to a row, and ends with the most hilarious Christmas lunch ever.
Coco and her mum have a falling out on Christmas Eve. Her mother thinks Coco can do so much better than her guitar-playing boyfriend, Daniel. She even has someone in mind – the insufferable Kenneth. Furious, Coco storms out to spend the day with Daniel and his family.
But when Jean-Paul Belmondo, the turkey Daniel’s mum keeps in a pen outside for the family’s Christmas dinner, escapes, Coco feels terrible. After all, it’s her fault Jean-Paul flew the coop; she left the door unlatched. So she invites Daniel’s family to come to her parents’ house for Christmas instead.
It’s a hilarious disaster of a meal you won’t soon forget…
A Very Coco Christmas is a wonderfully festive (and highly recommended!) read.
A Very Coco Christmas
The Blurb
It’s 1985, and eighteen-year-old Coco is home in London for Christmas after her first term at Aberystwyth University. She has started to write, and fallen hopelessly in love with Daniel Pinchard, a devilishly handsome musician from the wrong side of the river.
But Coco’s overbearing mother has other plans and resumes her campaign for Coco to meet and marry the ‘right sort of man’, preferably Kenneth, son of her best friends Adrian and Yvonne Rosebury, who will be joining them for Christmas.
As snow falls softly over the city, and Coco tries to juggle a series of hilarious events, the stage is set for a Christmas lunch like no other. A Very Coco Christmas is a delicious, stand-alone ‘prequella’ to the smash-hit Coco Pinchard series, with a glorious cast of characters including Daniel’s mother Ethel, sister Meryl – and a turkey called Jean Paul Belmondo…
About the Author
Robert Bryndza was born in the UK and lived in America and Canada before settling in Slovakia with his Slovak husband Ján. His debut novel The Not So Secret Emails of Coco Pinchard became an Amazon bestseller and two sequels have followed, Coco Pinchard’s Big Fat Tipsy Wedding and Coco Pinchard, The Consequences of Love and Sex. A Very Coco Christmas, is a delightful introductory novella to the Coco Pinchard series. When he’s not writing Rob is learning Slovak, trying to train two crazy dogs, or watching Grand Designs – all in the hope that he’ll be able to understand his mother-in-law, build his dream house, and get the dogs to listen.
Author Links
Website www.robertbryndza.com
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bryndzarobert
Robert Bryndza on Goodreads
Robert Bryndza on Twitter @robertbryndza
Coco Pinchard on Twitter @CocoPinchard
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