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Under the Christmas Tree Kindle Edition

by Jacqueline Ramsden (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 378 ratings

What if the only present you want this year is a person?

Katie’s position as an obstetrics doctor has her busy on Christmas Day yet again. Her mother isn’t happy about it—she wants Katie moving home and settling down with someone, but Katie never has time for home or for anyone.

Almost anyone.

Maggie is the one person Katie has time for. The two have been best friends for years, but Maggie’s feelings have long since shifted into something more.

The Christmas season brings friends pushing them to be together and family pulling them in directions they don’t want to go, showing up unexpectedly, and interrupting all of their carefully planned time together, as well as the slow realization that they might both be feeling something more than friendship. Will they get their Christmas wish, or will fate conspire against them and leave them feeling lonely this Christmas?


Under the Christmas Tree is a friends-to-lovers, slow-burn holiday romance, featuring meddling friends, intruding families, and hopeless pining sapphics. Content warning for pushy family dynamics.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CNX3NGDX
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 8, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.3 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
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Jacqueline Ramsden

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Jacqueline (she/they) is a genderqueer, demisexual lesfic writer. She enjoys tea and books.

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Customers enjoy this holiday romance, describing it as a warm hearted Christmas story with a true love theme. They find the book really cute.

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Customers enjoy this holiday romance, describing it as a warm hearted Christmas story with a true love theme.

"...It's a fun read with a little bit of angst and a wonderful ending, and like all of Ramsden's books, an easy recommendation!" Read more

"...This a just a sweet story where friends become girlfriends when the other friend finally realized she is in love with her best friend." Read more

"This was a slow burn, but a sweet story. Lots of Christmas magic and good insight into family issues around the holidays. A Christmas treat." Read more

"Jacqueline Ramsden has put together a very sweet holiday read. I love the characters individuality...." Read more

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Customers find the book cute, with one mentioning the adorable couple in the story.

"...and Maggie does a lot of the pining, but they really are an adorable couple who just fit so well together...." Read more

"...I'll definitely be revisiting in December. These two were very cute and it was my first book of Jacqueline so I'll definitely be reading more..." Read more

"...It's always cute and appropriate, even if it's on the border of being a tad over used. I am loving their books...." Read more

"Cute and lovely main characters, fun and frustrated side characters, meddling mother, all combine to make this awesome Christmas story...." Read more

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  • Issy W
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2025
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    Wholesome and sweet story about realising that the one that you want has been there beside you all along. Katie might be somewhat oblivious, and Maggie does a lot of the pining, but they really are an adorable couple who just fit so well together. It's a fun read with a little bit of angst and a wonderful ending, and like all of Ramsden's books, an easy recommendation!
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  • Tammy
    4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2024
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    A Christmas story about family trying to tell an adult child what to do. When a friend is in love with their best friend and doesn't know how to tell them. This a just a sweet story where friends become girlfriends when the other friend finally realized she is in love with her best friend.
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  • Soft-Hearted Scribbler
    5.0 out of 5 stars Adorably Heartwarming Sapphic Romance
    Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2024
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    Everyone in the world seems to know best friends Katie and Maggie belong together, and this may just be the Christmas they realize it too…if their families and jobs don’t get in the way.

    Under the Christmas Tree is an adorable, heartwarming romance with two likable yet flawed characters. Katie and Maggie have a beautiful, mutually supportive friendship that shelters them through life’s stress, but they are painfully clueless about how it can be the foundation for lasting romance. Frustrating families, holiday traditions, and work tension all serve to create entertaining chaos and catalysts for the emotional spark between the two main characters, making the eventual payoff all the sweeter.

    Readers who could use a cute and heartfelt holiday romance pick-me-up will be delighted with the gift that is Under the Christmas Tree.
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  • Elizabeth M. Norman
    5.0 out of 5 stars warm hearted Christmas story
    Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2024
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    This was a slow burn, but a sweet story. Lots of Christmas magic and good insight into family issues around the holidays. A Christmas treat.
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  • Gina
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Sweet Holiday Read!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2023
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    Jacqueline Ramsden has put together a very sweet holiday read. I love the characters individuality. Katie was a doctor, delivering and caring for patients which she loved. Katie was on call for Christmas and would be visiting her family on the 27th despite the complaints coming from her mother. Maggie is a photographer with her specialty of photography of child birth. She loved her work and wasn’t excited to be going home to a family that really didn’t get along. Katie and Maggie are best friends. But Maggie has been in love with Katie for a very long time. But this holiday is the time. There is a lot of angst pertaining to these two being thick headed. With the help or not of Katie’s family arriving at her door for Christmas. Can these two realize what was happening between them before it all falls apart?
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Story
    Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2024
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    I have a particular love for Christmas stories. And I also love the best friends falling in love theme. When you mix them together, it's Nirvana for me! Well done!
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Katie and Maggie over think!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2023
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    Sound familiar? Being friends, finishing each other sentences, reading a room to make it better. O.M.G.! Over thinking can be a good thing or something never happening because you thought too much! Luckily the two women have friends who have been watching on the sidelines and lend a helping hand with a mother determined to control or not! Vanilla book but it is her first so cut her some slack! Enjoy!
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  • RSL
    2.0 out of 5 stars Not a romance - an exercise
    Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2024
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    I read another book by this author a couple of years ago and really liked it, so I was happy to try this one. I regret that I did. This is why: Authors sometimes try things just to see if they can get away with them and that's what happened here. Sadly the attempt failed.

    The idea -- hinted at in the blurb (hopeless pining sapphics) but which also says this is a "slow-burn holiday romance" when it is a "no-burn non-romance" -- was to write a book where nothing happens between the MCs. I mean that literally, not figuratively. The MCs spend the entire book moping and acting obtuse while everyone from close friends to random strangers tell them how absurd they are being. Then, on the the very last page and practically in the very last paragraph, there is a brief, anticlimactic admission of love and an ever briefer kiss. Really, it's thrown away in a single sentence. That's it.

    This is not a spoiler because there is nothing to spoil here. Having gotten to this minimalist and downplayed kiss, the author ends the story. We don't get to see the MCs as a couple or learn anything about their life together. The author wanted to write the book this way and saw no point in continuing, because this is not a story, it's an exercise -- an exercise in frustration and annoyance.

    Future readers have a right to know this before investing time in this book, since they may have legitimate expectations of a "slow-burn holiday romance" which the author does not intend to fulfill.

    That is the main point. However, structurally, the book has other flaws.

    First, is the "pushy family dynamic" mentioned as a content warning. It is inserted to stretch out the narrative so nothing can happen for longer. It plays no significant part in either character's conflict or development (of which there is essentially none); it's just a clumsy plot device. There is nothing about it that requires a content warning, since the family dynamic is merely clueless and lacking in some boundaries but is essentially well-meaning. The reason for the content warning is the author's awareness that it's likely to be annoying because it lacks a legitimate purpose in the plot -- it's part of the exercise, nothing more.

    The second problem is the author resorts to a deus ex machina to resolve the impasse. This signals that the author has had enough of this exercise and wants to wrap it up. (The deus ex machina is telegraphed early in the book in an attempt to tie things together.) That is lazy writing.

    The final issue is the epilogue. It is not a real epilogue. It is tacked onto the end to deal with the family dynamic issue that was gratuitously inserted. If the family dynamic issue was meaningful, it should have been dealt with in the story itself and play a significant role in the narrative's resolution. But it doesn't so it gets tacked on to the end. It tells us nothing further about the MCs or their relationship -- it's simply there because the author, having adding the dynamic, had to deal with it and couldn't find another way to do so because the dynamic was gratuitous in the first place. Therefore, we get a useless explanation posing as an epilogue.

    Readers' time is priceless. Authors should not squander it. If they want to experiment, they have an obligation to be clear about that upfront, so readers aren't given false expectations, which is the case here.

    Last point for some readers: the author uses terminology that tends to erase the identity of women. If you are sensitive to this issue, consider that before reading this book.
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  • Celine
    5.0 out of 5 stars great read
    Reviewed in Germany on December 8, 2023
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    Great book, but then - I didn‘t expect anything less.
    (Very) slow burn friends to lovers with (much) mutual pining and never the right moment.
    Well, until you make it the right one.
    Because they are right for each other, they just have to get there.
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  • ILoveReading
    4.0 out of 5 stars Feel good slow burn.
    Reviewed in Australia on December 24, 2023
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    Feel good, epic journey for these two to get together, even with friends from both sides trying to give them a shove in the right direction. Add family and Christmas and the stress levels were high en route to the HEA.
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  • Devoncatt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely romance when they got the courage, time and space to talk
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2024
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    When they finally realised they were in love with each other. And hot the interfering controlling mum to stop and let them love one another!
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  • miss elaine m worby
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great Christmas love story.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2024
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    I really enjoyed reading this book, it shows how you can get so involved in your career, that you nearly miss the love that is right in front of you.
    Thoroughly enjoyed the characters and the family dynamics, great that they finally get together.
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  • Deb Hall
    5.0 out of 5 stars aww
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2023
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    Beautiful short Christmas story. Best friends to lovers, why is one party always oblivious. But they got there in the end. So many interruptions I began to wonder if they would actually get to have that conversation. Great characters, great story.
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