Today I am pleased to share with you my review of this brilliant and amusing festive read from Bella Osborne. Thank you to Rachels Random Resources for inviting me to join the tour, and for my copy of the ebook n exchange for my honest and unbiased review.
Book Description
A big family. A whole lot of secrets. A Christmas to remember…
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?
My Review
This was such a fun and drama filled story about a family Christmas that I found very relatable and one I thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish.
It is five weeks before Christmas and Lottie and her Grandmother Rose are making their Christmas cake and planning the traditional Christmas that the family has every year.
Lottie and her grandmother have a wonderful and close relationship as Lottie has spent most of her life living with her grandmother and her brother Zach after their mother would leave them in the search for love. These trip often proved to be unsuccessful and their mother is then on the hunt for a new man in her life.
Lottie is devastated when her beloved grandmother passes away and is heartbroken to find out that the house she has been living in with her grandmother is to be sold.
While at the funeral for Rose, Lottie discovers that everyone has made different plans for Christmas this year which makes her sad. This is not the family Christmas she had planned with her grandmother only weeks before. Lottie comes up with a plan that she will host Christmas and is soon asking all of the family to have one last family Christmas together. Thy all reluctantly agree and Lottie is sure that she will be fine as host for Christmas. How Hard could it be?
Fast forward to Christmas Eve and Lottie realises just how hard this is going to be with.
What follows from the first arrival is a series of drama and disasters. There is some laughter too amongst them all and they all realise this is a Christmas none of them will ever forget.
I loved this book from the first page to the last and did not want to put it down.
The writing style of the book flows well and is very light hearted.
I found I liked Lottie for the very beginning and completely understood her need to keep to her grandmother plans as the have meant so much to her over the years.
This Family Christmas is filled with disasters and and dramas and anything you did not want to happen over Christmas happens. Making all of this a huge challenge for Lottie. Especially when all of the guest are very entertaining and different people who all have their own ideas what they should all be doing.
This is such a fabulous and fun festive read that should definitely be added to you Christmas reading list. A
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About the Author
Bella has been jotting down stories as far back as she can remember but decided that 2013 would be the year that she finished a full length novel. Since then she’s written six best selling romantic comedies and she’s been shortlisted three times for the RNA Contemporary Romantic Novel of the Year Award.
Bella's stories are about friendship, love and coping with what life throws at you. She lives in The Midlands, UK with her husband, daughter and a cat who thinks she’s a dog. When not writing Bella is usually eating custard creams and planning holidays.
For more about Bella, visit her website at www.bellaosborne.com or follow her on social media.
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