cover image A Christmas Caroline

A Christmas Caroline

Kyle Smith, . . Morrow, $14.95 (309pp) ISBN 978-0-06-111987-3

It's Christmas Eve in uptown Manhattan; self-serving fashionista Caroline is a rude and spoiled narcissist who tramples on everyone's feelings. Caroline's ghosts of Christmas past, present and future are heralded not by Jacob Marley but by Caroline's dead, and equally stuck-up, roommate Carly: they arrive in the form of a spooky child actress, the UPS guy and a hooded, knitting Reaper in need of a manicure. Caroline's comeuppance comes with sprigs of wit and plenty of designer name-dropping. (Nov.)