The Christmas Postcards is the latest Karen Swan story for 2022, exploring a surprising and heart-warming connection between pen-pals. When Natasha's little girl loses her beloved toy on holiday, she launches an appeal on social media to track it down. Unbelievably, the toy has become the lucky mascot of a man named Duffy who is travelling thousands of miles away. Natasha and Duffy continue to exchange messages and pictures as Duffy heads further and further into the Himalayan mountains, and soon the pair share a meaningful connection neither of them could?ve anticipated. The romance that Natasha had tried to rekindle with her husband Rob is continuing to fizzle out. And Natasha starts to wonder how it is that she can feel more understood by a man so many miles away than the one lying next to her.
