"Wonderful Yuletide romantic spin"
Video biographer Miranda James heads to her hometown in
hope of obtaining an interview from reclusive author Warren
Addison, someone she went to high school with. Trying to
meet Warren reminds Miranda of her dreams of Chad English,
a person she had a crush on back in school. Because he wants time with Miranda who he loved as a teen,
Warren, breaking his strict rules of media avoidance,
agrees to be interviewed by her. However, as he falls in
love with the biographer, he remains disappointed that
Miranda does not to see how much he cherishes his old
schoolmate because she still pines for Chad, separated from
his wife. The key to C. J. Carmichael's warm romance, TOGETHER BY
CHRISTMAS, is the complex Miranda, a person with a great
deal of professional success and acclaim, and an outer
beauty who still feels all alone and insecure, mindful in a
sense of Richard Cory (before the bullet). Though the rest
of the cast, especially Chad, pale next to Miranda, her
struggles with the awareness of loving someone else, her
fanciful dreams along with her obvious flaws make her seem
human with foibles. She turns Ms. Carmichael's tale into a
wonderful Yuletide romantic spin. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 19, 2002
SummaryMiranda James is back in the tiny prairie town of
Chatsworth, Saskatchewan, to work on a video biography of
reclusive writer Warren Addison. While she's there, she
hopes to help her best friend, Chad English, whose wife
has kicked him out of the house. But his wife has always
been jealous of Chad's relationship with Miranda, so maybe
her presence won't really improve the situation. More
important, is fixing their marriage what Miranda really
wants?
Warren Addison went to school with Miranda and Chad. He
knows about Miranda's feelings for her best friend. But
Warren has his own ideas about what's best for this woman.
He hopes he can convince her before Christmas; before a
family is torn apart—and before his heart is broken
again.
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