The Chicklit Advent Calendar - Door two

Behind the second door of my festive selection of chick lit was the lovely Miracle on Regent Street by Ali Harris.

Another Tiffany blue cover, splashes of pink baubles and the words 'Dreams can come true.... it could happen to you' and I was tucked in with the electric blanket back on and my new Christmas lights twinkling.

This gorgeous book is an advent Calendar in itself - buy it quickly and you will be able to catch up! Starting on the 1st of December, you are taken through to the 19th December in shopping days. This, in itself, made me ridiculously excited! If I could have read the right chapter on the right day, I would have done..... but be warned, you will have to wait until 1st January (and 357 shopping days until Christmas) to read the epilogue!

Evie Taylor works in the Stockroom of Hardy's, an old fashioned department store at risk of being sold. She is invisible to the shop floor staff, who don't even know her name and her talents are wasted stuck in the basement. To be perfectly honest, for the first few chapters of the book, I really wanted to ring Evie up myself and tell her to stop wearing those shoddy black trousers..... but a little touch of festive sparkle later and she starts to slowly reinvent herself.
Hardy's Department store was opened in 1910 and Evie's stock room is full of glamorous vintage beauties which have been hidden away for years.

When Hardy's starts losing money and is threatened with closure, Evie envisions a store which was as amazing as it used to be.... romantic, dazzling and the place to be.

Vowing that nobody will ever find out who has changed the store bit by bit, she turns 'secret Christmas elf' gives Hardy's a brand new lease of life.

Whilst doing this, Evie is pretending to be somebody else..... literally..... falling in love.... trying to keep her family together and realising friends are the people who are always there for you.

If you love shopping, Christmas and London.... you will love this book. I want to go to Hardy's, I want to buy their vintage make up compacts, go in their VIP changing rooms and have tea at Lily's tea room.

Most of all, I want to congratulate Evie on 'The Wardrobe' and visit the shops in her Vintage London Address Book with her.

Delicious!