The intrepid women of The Hot Flash Club are back for the holidays, soothing jingled nerves and stressed shoppers within their exclusive spa and celebrating the joys of the growing season. In her witty and delightfully wisecracking prose, Nancy Thayer tells a heartwarming tale packed with fun, secrets, romance-and an sufficient dose of great cheer.

When the Hot Flash friends gather in the spa to trim the Christmas tree, they share steaming mugs of hot delicious chocolate, several laughs, and a vow to create this holiday one on the subject of Hot Flash Holidays: A Novel to remember. And it is-but not really in the cheerful, ho-ho-ho way they expected. Instead, Christmas brings family conflicts, household mishaps, plane delays-and that’s simply the beginning.

After a hazardous holidays, the women make resolutions that they plan to keep . in an ideal world. But life-and their friends and relatives-cause problems. Shirley lends monetary support to her boyfriend’s schemes, which infuriates Alice, whose personal kid commits an act she’s uncertain she can accept. Marilyn travels to Scotland and falls in love, but her octogenarian mom needs her at home. So when Polly and Faye end up pitted against one another by a younger woman, an they get over this clash to make a new, entrepreneurial fantasy come true? After that real disaster attacks, bringing new difficulties and unexpected revelations.

Just as on a monthly basis of the year throws fresh problems at us all, so as well does the end of the entire year give us the opportunity to reunite and put these problems

to their proper perspective. And when the Hot Flash Five gather for the holiday season, we should expect nothing significantly less than the unexpected.