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    "description": "This year, their families can deck the bloody halls themselves...\n\nOld friends Shelley, Lena and Pearl have reached their limit with the festive preparation that has always fallen to them, and five days before Christmas, they\u2019ve booked a mini break\u2026 without their families. Up until Christmas Eve, they\u2019ll be sipping prosecco in the Highlands while their kids wrap bacon around 100 chipolatas and their partners brave the supermarkets.\n\nIt\u2019s exactly what they need\u2026 until they\u2019re snowed in. Facing the prospect of Christmas 500 miles from home, each woman is forced to confront her real reasons for needing to escape: the fianc\u00e9 with the obnoxious family; the son\u2019s new girlfriend who is taking over their home; the family who take their mother for granted all year round\u2026\n\nWill the friends make it home before Christmas day? And if they do, can they really go back to their old lives?",
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