My third collection of short stories is set in a small but luxurious family hotel over the Christmas period. Claire and Neil own the hotel and are worried because the recession it biting and bookings are down. If they don’t make a go of the important Christmas season, they might even lose the hotel they’ve worked so hard to build up. Luckily, with only a few days to go, people start to arrive at the hotel and are instantly seduced by the warmth and the ambience, even if  - at first – they might not have wanted to be there at all…

I enjoy writing short stories because they are an instant fix of creativity. I particularly liked this collection because it gave me a chance to explore one of the most stressful times of the year and it also branched out into a whole new genre of story in ‘Bearleagh’ which was great fun for me.

Although each story is totally complete and can be read individually, characters from one can pop up in another and one of the stories features Andie, Jin and Cora from Anyone But Him.

Read the extract below for a flavour of A Season to Remember…