Last Christmas in Paris 2 - The End (Pages 150 - end)

RATING: GOOD

SPOILERS!!!

In 1917 John Hopper proposes to Evie, and she doesn't know what to do. Even though she is in love with Thomas, there is no indication that he has feelings for her. However, marrying John is a good prospect, but she doesn't love him. Evie then decides to join the WAAC and tells him John that she needs time to think. Evie goes to France, and she only tells her parents in a note she leaves for them, and when she writes to Tom, he is not happy either, fearing for her safety.

In France she is given a job as a telephonist, and from the front she keeps sending her column, but it seems that it causes quite a stir, and the newspaper has to face the police and is in danger of closing down. John keeps hinting at the proposal, and things come to a head when he tells her that he hopes for a spring wedding and that her mother has already ordered her wedding dress. John also tells Tom in a letter that he and Evie are to be married in spring. That spurs Tom to write a very angry letter, telling her that she has deceived him and is very disappointed. Evie writes back, telling him that she refused the proposal and begging him to be her friend, and she even goes as far as confessing that she is love with him. She also writes to John, furious at him for his lies and then flatly refuses to marrying him.

It is 1918 and the war is close to its end. Evie is contacted by Sophia, the mother of the  nurse who Will fell for. In a letter Evie had learnt that Amandine was pregnant, and Will wanted to look after her and the baby, and if he were to die, he wanted his family to look after them. Amandine's mother writes to say that her daughter died in childbirth, and she is raising her daughter, Delphine. The girl is the only thing she has, and she didn't want to write to Evie for fear, but now the woman thinks that Delphine has the right to know about her father's family.

Around this time Tom gets the letter that two years ago Evie wrote to him, declaring her love. The letter had got lost and was returned to Evie's mother by mistake. When Tom realises that he has made a mistake, he tries to write to Evie, but she has contracted the Spanish flu and is very sick. He gets permission to travel to see her, but she is not allowed in. However, the nurse, who was the one who looked after Tom too, finally lets her be by her side. Tom is the first thing Evie sees when thankfully she recovers. They marry at the end of the war, and they spend that Christmas in Paris. 

In 1968 Tom is in Paris to see Delphine because he has a letter from her father to give him. This will be his last Christmas in Paris as he will soon join his wife, Evie, in heaven. When Tom dies, Delphine writes to her cousin, Will, Tom and Evie's son, to tell him how wonderful his parents were and how they are going to be missed.

I loved the novel, and it was easy to read from the perspective of all the characters with the letters they exchanged.