Now a Great American Family Christmas Movie! www.SheilasPlace.com Icicle Falls is the place to be at Christmas… Everyone's getting ready for Christmas in Icicle Falls, especially on Candy Cane Lane, where holiday decorating is taken very seriously. Tilda Morrison, town cop, is looking forward to celebrating Christmas in her first house…until she discovers that she's expected to "keep up" with the neighbors, including Maddy Donaldson, the inspiration behind the whole extravaganza. But this year, someone's destroying Maddie's precious candy canes! Thank goodness for the cop in their neighborhood. Tilda already has her hands full trying to sort out her love life and fix up her fixer-upper. Oh, and won't it be fun to have the family over for Christmas dinner? Not really… Then there's her neighbor, Ivy Bohn. As a newly single mom, Ivy can sum up the holiday in two words: Bah, humbug. But she's determined to give her kids a perfect Christmas. Despite family disasters, irritating ex-husbands and kitchen catastrophes, these three women are going to find out that Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year!

シーラ・ロバーツが描くのは、祝祭の煌めきの裏にある切実な人間模様です。本作の本質は、完璧なクリスマスという規範と格闘する女性たちの、泥臭くも愛おしい再生の物語にあります。共同体の期待に翻弄されながらも、自分らしい幸せを模索する彼女たちの心理描写は、単なる季節の物語を超えた普遍的な連帯の美しさを教えてくれます。 映像版がアイシクル・フォールの眩い視覚美を届ける一方で、原作は文字にしか成し得ない内面的な深みを湛えています。映像が幸福の形を映し出すなら、小説はその裏側にある孤独や葛藤を丁寧に掬い上げます。華やかな映像と、心の機微を綴ったテキストの両方を味わうことで、読者はより多層的で温かな人間賛歌の真髄に触れることができるはずです。