With mistletoe, mine pies, nativities, snow, Christmas fairs and decorations galore - get into the festive spirit with a good Christmas story. Here's the low down on my top picks these season.
1. Christmas at Rachel's Pudding Pantry by Caroline Roberts
Well worth a read - this one certainly got me in the Christmas spirit. This had all the ingredients for a perfect romcom eligible bachelor, countryside village setting, close-knit family and friends, entrepreneurial spirit and cute animals/children. However, this had more breadth than your typical sugar-coated romance. It was heart-warming but also real, embracing the ups and downs of life including illness, grief, single parenting, British farming and starting up a small business. Essentially this was the story of the Swinton family - four generations of warm, strong women working together to make a success of their new business and keep their beloved farm.
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2. I'll Be Home For Christmas - Karen Clarke
My favourite of the three - a festive feel-good story set in a quaint French village with a strong female entrepreneurial character running her own business whilst trying not to fall in love. What I loved most about this book was it's relatability. Whilst thankfully I've never been caught by a really cute guy doing a koala-dance complete with koala noise whilst dressed in a koala onesie, I can't be the only one who can totally relate to those type of cringenly embarrassing situations. I love Karen Clarke's style of writing - witty and modern but also refreshingly PG, describing connections and spine-tingling kisses rather than x-rated sex scenes.
3. A Perfect Cornish Christmas by Phillipa Ashley
A heart-warming romance set at Christmas. I fell in love with the Cornish seaside village of Porthmellow with its cosy cafes, welcoming pub, village traditions and bracing seascape. The sense of community spirit as all the locals got involved in the Solstice celebrations and annual Boxing Day swim was really inspiring and heart-warming. It was a bonus to be treated to not one but two budding romances, with both sisters falling for a hot, single local. The book starts with Scarlett gate-crashing the pub's Christmas Day Lunch for the Lonely after a family history gift revealed her Dad wasn't actually her real Dad.
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