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Kate Hewitt wrote her first story at the age of five, simply because her older brother had written one and she thought she could do it too. That story was one sentence long—fortunately, they have become a bit more detailed as she’s grown older.
She studied drama in college and shortly after graduation moved to New York City to pursue a career in theatre. This was derailed by something far better—meeting the man of her dreams who happened also to be her older brother’s childhood friend.
Ten days after their wedding they moved to England, where Kate worked a variety of different jobs—drama teacher, editorial assistant, church youth worker, secretary, and finally mother.
When her oldest daughter was one year old, she sold her first short story to a British magazine, The People’s Friend. Since then she has written many stories and serials as well as novels. In 2007 she received ‘The Call’ from Mills & Boon for her first Harlequin Presents novel, The Italian’s Chosen Wife. Since then she has written over 25 books for Harlequin, and also writes women’s fiction for Carina UK and Lion Hudson Press. She loves writing stories that both tackle tough issues and celebrate the redeeming power of love.
Besides writing, she enjoys reading, traveling, and learning to knit—it’s an ongoing process and she’s made a lot of scarves.
Kate lives in a tiny village on the northwest coast of England with her husband, five young children, and an overly affectionate Golden Retriever.
Reviewed by Natasha Jackson for Readers' Favorite
City girl Claire had decided she isn’t up for another family Christmas with her perfect mother, her perfect sisters and their utterly perfect children. After a stressful year that included a bad relationship, Claire decides to take over her godmother’s cottage and enjoy her holidays in peace. But that wasn't to be. In A Yorkshire Christmas by Kate Hewitt, Claire gets caught in a heavy snow and winds up stuck in a ditch and decides to walk the rest of the way to the cottage when she encounters sheep farmer, Noah. After helping Noah remove a stuck ewe from a ravine, they can’t seem to stay away from one another. Neither Claire nor Noah are looking for romantic entanglements but between his fear of caring for his 8-year-old daughter and their previous hurts, finding love in Yorkshire isn't as easy as it sounds.
Kate Hewitt has a holiday gem with this story. There is so much to love about A Yorkshire Christmas, most especially that Claire and Noah are truly opposites in about every way aside from their broken hearts. He is wary of rich city girls like her and she is still licking her wounds, but as they become a makeshift family for the holidays, things begin to change. Kate Hewitt does a good job of painting the solitary holiday Claire and Noah have planned without making it full of angst. For Claire, the solitude is more about healing, whereas for Noah it is a way of life. But with a child thrown into the mix they come together to give young Molly a Christmas to remember. In the end, they look deeper than the surface and realize that being happy means being who you are, not who the world expects you to be. A fun Christmas read with romance, family and snow!
