AN IDEAL Present is glamorous and festive read from Karen Swan, writer of Xmas at Tiffany’s.

Haunted by a past she can’t escape, Laura Cunningham wishes only to maintain her world little and precise – her quiet relationship and growing jewellery business are all she must get by. Until the time when Rob Blake strolls into her studio room and commissions a necklace that will inform his enigmatic wife Cat’s life in charms.

As Laura interviews Cat’s family members, friends and previous lovers, about The Perfect Present she actions out of her world and into theirs – a charmed world where weekends are spent in Verbier as well as the air flow is usually lavender-scented, where close friends are wild, extravagant and jealous, and a large love must contend with grand passions.

Hearts are opened up, secrets revealed so that as the necklace starts to fill up with trinkets, Cat’s intoxicating life envelops Laura’s own. By enough time she has to recognize the final attraction, Laura’s metamorphosis is almost complete. However the last tale left to tell has the power to change all their lives forever, and Laura can be forced to select between who she is really and who it really is she wants to be.