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Coming Home to Glendale Hall by Victoria Walters
4.0
Coming Home to Glendale Hall is a heart-warming and cosy festive read about reconciliations, forgiveness, coming together with family, and the importance of community.
Full of family tensions, guilt, and misunderstandings, Coming Home to Glendale Hall is an easy book to relate to. As much as we look forward to some family time at Christmas, there are always conflicts or dreads, meaning that it's usually a time that emotions run high and conflicts arise. So we're all bound to have felt some of Beth's worries at times. But Christmas is also a time to let things lie, to make amends and to focus on what's important.
And that's why this is such a lovely book. So much in Beth's life has gone in a different direction to what she had imagined for herself, but sometimes things happen for a reason. Now, she is brought back to her family, to her old friends, and to her first love, as she is forced to face up to a world that she ran away from.
I loved her strength of character, but it was the mother-daughter relationships with her daughter and her mother that I found most engaging. Although I thought that the book had a slow start, I soon got into its warm festive spirit. With brilliant details of the hall, the town, and the snowy trail, I quickly likened to the characters just as much as I did the setting.
This would make a brilliant Christmas film. I would love to see the hall and the trail brought to life and to swoon over the hopeful romance. As cheesy and cliche as the romance is, it's exactly what you want from a festive story. Sometimes you need something light-hearted to cosy into winter with, and I could definitely do that with Beth, Drew and Izzy.
The epilogue put a huge smile on my face and I've already downloaded the next book in the series to see how their stories progress from here.
Full of family tensions, guilt, and misunderstandings, Coming Home to Glendale Hall is an easy book to relate to. As much as we look forward to some family time at Christmas, there are always conflicts or dreads, meaning that it's usually a time that emotions run high and conflicts arise. So we're all bound to have felt some of Beth's worries at times. But Christmas is also a time to let things lie, to make amends and to focus on what's important.
And that's why this is such a lovely book. So much in Beth's life has gone in a different direction to what she had imagined for herself, but sometimes things happen for a reason. Now, she is brought back to her family, to her old friends, and to her first love, as she is forced to face up to a world that she ran away from.
I loved her strength of character, but it was the mother-daughter relationships with her daughter and her mother that I found most engaging. Although I thought that the book had a slow start, I soon got into its warm festive spirit. With brilliant details of the hall, the town, and the snowy trail, I quickly likened to the characters just as much as I did the setting.
This would make a brilliant Christmas film. I would love to see the hall and the trail brought to life and to swoon over the hopeful romance. As cheesy and cliche as the romance is, it's exactly what you want from a festive story. Sometimes you need something light-hearted to cosy into winter with, and I could definitely do that with Beth, Drew and Izzy.
The epilogue put a huge smile on my face and I've already downloaded the next book in the series to see how their stories progress from here.