This year, Lottie is hosting one last big family Christmas at the home she grew up in - just like her Nana would have wanted.
But when her relatives descend on the old manor house, Lottie gets more than she bargained for. Every family has its secrets, but in this family, everybody has one!
So, between cooking a Christmas dinner, keeping tensions at bay and a stray dog out of mischief, she has plenty on her plate (and not just misshapen sausage rolls and a frozen turkey). And then her first love shows up - nine years after he walked out of her life.
Can Lottie make their last family Christmas one to remember... for the right reasons?
A festive treat to curl up with this Christmas, perfect for fans of Milly Johnson and Trisha Ashley.***
Lottie tripped over the cat and watched the bag of flour salt sail through the air. PROLOGUE, FIVE WEEKS UNTIL CHRISTMAS
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(@AvonBooksUK, 15 October 2020, 416 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I've wanted to read more by the author since I loved her novel Meet Me at Pebble Beach when I took part in the blog tour earlier this year. I was a bit cynical as the book is set at Christmas and my experience in the past is that such books tend to be cheesy with few exceptions such as crime fiction. The family at the centre of this book are quite dysfunctional and are keeping secrets from each other. They don't come across as nice people at first, more concerned with jetting off on luxury breaks than the fact the matriarch has died. Lottie brings them together for one last big Christmas at Nana's big house by the sheer effort of her will. She seems to be the only one interested in keeping this tradition alive. I laughed a lot reading this book as I warmed to Lottie's family and I also cried a few times. This is the perfect mix of happy and sad.
