Starry night
a Christmas novel
Readers rate it 3.6 (19 on Hardcover)
243 pages · Released 2013 · Ballantine Books
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A note for parents
This is a contemporary Christmas romance centered on a journalist pursuing an interview with a reclusive author in Alaska. The story emphasizes themes of personal growth, family reconciliation, and choosing what matters most. While it's marketed as an adult romance, the content is relatively mild and could appeal to older teens, though some romantic elements and the wilderness survival backstory add modest mature themes.
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From the publisher
"'Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in the remote Alaskan wilderness, Finn has... "'Carrie Slayton, a big-city society-page columnist, longs to write more serious news stories. So her editor hands her a challenge: She can cover any topic she wants, but only if she first scores the paper an interview with Finn Dalton, the notoriously reclusive author. Living in the remote Alaskan wilderness, Finn has written a megabestselling memoir about surviving in the wild. But he stubbornly declines to speak to anyone in the press, and no one even knows exactly where he lives. Digging deep into Finn's past, Carrie develops a theory on his whereabouts. It is the holidays, but her career is at stake, so she forsakes her family celebrations and flies out to snowy Alaska."--Provided by publisher.
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- Women journalists
- Man-woman relationships
- Recluses as authors
- Fiction
- Christmas
- nyt:mass-market-paperback=2014-11-09
- New York Times bestseller
- Wilderness survival
- Large type books
- Christmas stories
- FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
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ISBN 9780345545527 · Ballantine Books