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    The Noel Diary
    The Noel Diary
    The Noel Diary
    Audiobook4 hours

    The Noel Diary

    Written by Richard Paul Evans

    Narrated by Richard Paul Evans

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    Now a Netflix film starring Justin Hartley!

    In this holiday-themed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk, a man receives the best Christmas present he could ask for: the chance to rewrite the past.

    Bestselling romance author Jacob Churcher hasn't been home for almost twenty years—not since his mentally ill mother kicked him out of the house when he was just sixteen. When a lawyer calls, days before Christmas, to inform him that his estranged mother has passed away and left her house to him, Jacob returns not just to settle the estate but to try and reconcile with the past and the pain and abuse he experienced as a child. Also, maybe cleaning out her house will be slightly less depressing than spending the holidays alone, watching re-runs of Christmas classics.

    But as it turns out, the house holds more than just difficult memories, Jacob’s mother had become a hoarder and he must excavate through two decades worth of clutter. As Jacob digs through the detritus, like an archaeologist, he uncovers many puzzling items including a diary left by someone named Noel, a young woman he has no recollection of, who stayed with Jacob’s family during her pregnancy. That’s not the only echo from the past. Jacob has an unexpected visitor, Rachel, a woman looking for the mother who put her up for adoption thirty years before. United by their quest to make sense of the past and rewrite their futures, Jacob and Rachel begin a search for Noel. Along the way they find more than they possibly imagined, including grace, forgiveness and a chance at love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 7, 2017
    ISBN9781508238225
    The Noel Diary
    Author

    Richard Paul Evans

    Richard Paul Evans is the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than forty novels. There are currently more than thirty-five million copies of his books in print worldwide, translated into more than twenty-four languages. Richard is the recipient of numerous awards, including two first place Storytelling World Awards, the Romantic Times Best Women’s Novel of the Year Award, and five Religion Communicators Council’s Wilbur Awards. Seven of Richard’s books have been produced as television movies. His first feature film, The Noel Diary, starring Justin Hartley (This Is Us) and acclaimed film director, Charles Shyer (Private Benjamin, Father of the Bride), premiered in 2022. In 2011 Richard began writing Michael Vey, a #1 New York Times bestselling young adult series which has won more than a dozen awards. Richard is the founder of The Christmas Box International, an organization devoted to maintaining emergency children’s shelters and providing services and resources for abused, neglected, or homeless children and young adults. To date, more than 125,000 youths have been helped by the charity. For his humanitarian work, Richard has received the Washington Times Humanitarian of the Century Award and the Volunteers of America National Empathy Award. Richard lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Keri, and their five children and two grandchildren. You can learn more about Richard on his website RichardPaulEvans.com.

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    • 5/5
      The story was beautiful and I loved how the lives of Rachel and Jacob were parallel. He fell in love with the woman who was carried by a woman who deeply loved him. Incredibly written! I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.
    • 5/5
      Beautifully written. Loved all the characters. Laughed and cried.
    • 3/5
      No hay nada más sentimental y bello como las reconciliaciones familiares en navidad <3<3
    • 5/5
      A beautiful and sad story of heart wrenching pain with a redeeming ending.
    • 5/5
      I don't think that there not one book of his that I don't love
    • 4/5
      This story is like a sweet cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter day.
    • 5/5
      I was determined to read the book before I watched the movie. Not sure if this was good thing or not because the book was so amazing and the movie barely scraped the surface of the story, which is understandable, since they had to squeeze it into less than two hours. I probably would’ve loved the movie if I hadn’t already dived so deeply into the world of the characters and gotten to know them in such a deep way. This author is one of my favorites, and is a master storyteller that makes you feel like the characters are real, and you want to invite them over get to know them better! This book did not disappoint!