The Noel Diary

I continue to search for wonderful Christmas fiction that warms the heart. This past year I read several titles of Richard Paul Evans, who some refer to as “the king of Christmas stories.” His small book stories offer protagonists with life challenges and are sometimes partly autobiographical. 

Because I am so fascinated with how memory works, I was glued to his story, The Noel Diary. 

The male protagonist, a writer, struggles with the deeply unresolved relationships with his parents and with a floating, recurrent memory of a woman he does not know. While cleaning out his deceased mother’s house, he… show more.