Not Before the 25th

She has never kept a round long enough to learn anybodys name. This Christmas, the snow has other ideas.

Relief postie Jodie Garbutt has spent five years covering other peoples rounds and leaving before anyone can miss her. Then a week before Christmas she takes over Thornwick, in the Yorkshire Dales, and on her second morning the drifts shut the lane to the top farms, with the dales Christmas post still stacked in red sacks.

The only vehicle that can get through belongs to Noel Raistrick of Scarth Top. He is capable, dry and quietly furious about Christmas, because he was born on Christmas Day and has never once had a birthday of his own. Three days in his tractor cab teach Jodie every name on the round. She has started planning Noel the birthday nobody ever gave him when the transfer she has wanted for five years comes through.

Leaving has always been the one thing Jodie is good at. Now she has to decide whether to stay.

A warm, funny, closed-door Christmas romance for fans of Jenny Colgan and Heidi Swain. Put the kettle on, because the last post of the year is about to be delivered.