Spotlight: Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon

Introduction by Melissa Amster

Today we are celebrating the publication of Matthew Norman's latest rom-com, Grace & Henry's Holiday Movie Marathon! This sounds like a great story and I look forward to adding it to my queue soon. I enjoy holiday movies and am pleased to share my marathon list with you. I'd love to see yours, so please share it in the comments.

1. While You Were Sleeping

2. Home Alone

3. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

4. Love, Actually

5. The Holiday

6. Any good sounding movies that are new to Hallmark channel or Netflix, especially if they are about Hanukkah.

Be sure to add this novel to your winter holiday reading TBR!

The new year has barely begun when Grace White and Henry Adler both lose their spouses. Now, nearly a year later, the first holiday season since their "Great and Terrible Sadnesses" approaches. Although their book-club mothers scheme to matchmake the two, it’s clear neither is ready to date again. Yet no one understands what the two surviving spouses are going through better than each other, and a delicate friendship is born.

When Henry sees an ad for a Christmas movie marathon—once an annual tradition for him and his wife—Grace offers to watch some films together, despite her aversion to a few of his picks. Her two young kids, Ian and Bella, also join in whenever possible—bedtimes permitting, of course.

With each movie, Grace and Henry’s shared grief begins to ease as they start to see a life beyond the sadness. But as they draw closer, other romantic possibilities leave them both uncertain about their future together. Is their bond merely the result of loneliness and shared circumstances, or have they found something more long-lasting that’s worth taking a shot at . . . again?

“Hands down, one of the best rom-coms I’ve ever read. No one can make me laugh (and cry) quite like Matthew Norman, and I know I'll be re-reading this warm hug of a book every holiday season for years to come.”

—Colleen Oakley, author of Jane and Dan at the End of the World

“Between the snappy dialogue, lovable characters, and pitch-perfect emotion, Grace & Henry’s Holiday Movie Marathon is a delightful gem of absolute perfection. Literally only Scrooge couldn’t fall in love with this book.”

—Allison Winn Scotch, bestselling author of The Rewind

“There’s an intimacy of thought in Matthew Norman’s books that creates the sense of feeling, as the reader, that you are understood and welcome, that you would also be cared for in the world of his characters. I didn’t just love Grace and Henry’s Holiday Movie Marathon. I lived in it, and actively missed it as soon as I turned the last page.”

—Allison Larkin, author of The People We Keep

Courtesy of Matthew's website

Matthew Norman lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with his wife and two children and holds an MFA from George Mason University. His previous novels include Charm City Rocks, All Together Now, Last Couple Standing, We're All Damaged, and Domestic Violets.

Visit Matthew online:
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