Jean Meltzer has made writing Jewish romance novels a genre all its own. She is becoming prolific in her writing and has also started promoting and encouraging other writers who write Jewish related romance to come together and share in her limelight. She has created a community of writers and readers. The Eight Heartbreaks of Hanukah is her latest novel.
The Eight Breakups of Hanukah is a clever take-off on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Dickens brings Ebenezer Scrooge three ghosts, past, present and future to helpl cure him of his negative attitude toward Christmas and the people in his life.
Evelyn Schwartz uses work to escape any personal relationships because they make her uncomfortable. She is a work-a-holic and her marriage with David, a doctor, ended two years ago. But now the week before her Christmas special is supposed to air, the most important work event of her life, David shows up at the studio as the doctor on call. As Evelyn negociates between her need to excel at work and her growing feelings of love toward David returning she is visited by eight ghosts, one for each night of Hanukah, They each take her on a trip back to relive different moments in her relationship with David.
This is an entertaining plot with lots of secrets revealed with each ghost's visit. A clever way to tell the back story of David and Evelyn's relationship and what led to the breakup. Can the eight heartbreaks teach Evelyn a lesson in time?
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