There Will Not Be Another Christmas

What if the Christmas you wished would disappear began taking your family with it?Peter Whitaker has never been fond of Christmas. Every year brings the same expectations, the same traditions, the same noise, the same arguments - and the same feeling that everyone wants something from him.All Peter wants is one quiet Christmas.Then, on Christmas morning in the Yorkshire town of Merriton-on-Rye, an unexplained present appears beneath the tree. Inside is a family photograph and a message: KEEP THE PHOTOGRAPH.YOU WILL NEED TO REMEMBER THEM.The following morning, Peter wakes at 6:17.It is Christmas Day again.But one member of his family has disappeared.Not missing. Not dead.Erased.Everyone remembers a world in which that person never existed. Everyone except Peter.As Christmas repeats, more people vanish, lives are rewritten and strangers appear where loved ones once stood. The photograph becomes Peter's only proof of the family he is slowly losing, while mysterious messages begin appearing through the television - messages that seem to know exactly what Peter once wished for.The quieter his Christmas becomes, the more Peter realises what silence really costs.Darkly humorous, mysterious and deeply emotional, There Will Not Be Another Christmas is a supernatural Christmas novel about family, memory, regret and the people who may drive us mad - but whose absence can leave an unbearable silence behind.Human-created stories. AI-written fiction.