With only a few shopping days left until Christmas, it's proving an impossible task. Throw into the mix her new job teaching English in the notoriously rough St Duke's comprehensive school, her lazy husband Daniel, and the prospect of the in-laws descending for the festivitires, and Coco wishes she could postpone Christmas and sail off to an island somewhere. Preferably with Tom Wednesday, her handsome art teacher. But help is at hand as faithful friedns Chris and Mrika rally round and even mother-in-law Ethel tries to help in her own intiminable way. From dodgy dealings in a lay-by, to extreme shopping in Hamley's with a Sylvanian Families fanatic, to having a go at the Blue Peter make-your-own Tracy Island, Coco tries everything in the hope that Rosencrantz gets to open his must-have toy on Christmas morning.
