Christmas at the Farmhouse
by Rebecca Boxall
Synopsis:
As the anticipation of Christmas builds in the Nielsen family’s cosy farmhouse, Jo, Magnus and their grown-up children begin to congregate for a hybrid Danish-Jersey festive season, each with a surprise of their own – though the surprise that arrives over Christmas is the most life-changing of all.Fifty years earlier, in 1969, Susan Jones finds herself being pursued by Mr Jenners, her former English teacher, and at the age of seventeen is packed off to a Home for Unmarried Mothers in London by her uncompromising father. As Christmas approaches, all she can do is desperately hope to be rescued, but will anyone be able to reach her in time?
The two timelines of this festive story gradually weave together in a tale that examines whether love and hope can eventually triumph over even the deepest sadness.
Rebecca Boxall is the award-nominated author of five bestselling novels – Christmas at the Vicarage, Home for Winter, Christmas on the Coast, The Christmas Forest and Christmas by the Lighthouse.
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Review:
Thank you to Rachel's Random Resources and Rebecca Boxall for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this review are my own.
Christmas at the Farmhouse is a dual timeline story that will leave you with a smile on your face and cozy a feeling in your heart. We alternate perspectives from Susan in 1969 and Jo in 2019 until finally both stories intertwine just in time for Christmas.
This certainly was a heartwarming story of love and loss. As I drank it down I found myself having all the feels. Susan's story made me so sad while I was reading it. I found myself really hoping things were going to turn out different for her. The writing is simply beautiful. Boxall paints a beautiful picture of family, pain and finally healing. I absolutely adored this book.
I feel like fans of feel-good Hallmark Christmas movies would enjoy this book.
Author Bio
Rebecca Boxall was born in 1977 in East Sussex, where she grew up in a vicarage always filled with family, friends and parishioners. She now lives by the sea in Jersey with her husband, three children and Rodney the cat. She read English at the University of Warwick before training as a lawyer and also studied Creative Writing with The Writer’s Bureau. She is the bestselling author of Christmas at the Vicarage, Home for Winter, Christmas on the Coast, The Christmas Forest and Christmas by the Lighthouse and was nominated for the Romantic Novelist Association Awards in 2020.
Social Media Links:
Website: www.rebeccaboxall.co.ukFacebook Page: www.facebook.com/christmasatthevicarage
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