All Meredith Verren has ever wanted is to escape the holiday season without having to wear a Christmas jumper. Her new job at the cosy gift shop in a picturesque Cornish tourist spot is making it impossible for her to maintain her scrooge-like manner.
With their seasonal hampers on everyone’s wish list, Meredith must paste on a smile and fake some holiday cheer. Then she meets handsome new arrival, Finn, who wishes it could be Christmas every day and wants her to feel the same way too.
Can she embrace the holly and the ivy before the decorations are packed away for another year?
I am a crazed Cressida superfan so any time there is a book
release by her it feels like Christmas to me! Book 5 in the Cornish Cream Tea
series is titled Christmas Carols and a Cornish Cream Tea and has a festive
cover to swoon over and will make the prefect stocking filler this Christmas.
Our heroine this time is Meredith who lives in a Cornish
village working in a Cornish gift shop and is less than a fan of Christmas due
to memories that she carries with her of a past Christmas. But as the shop is
gearing up for the season Meredith can’t escape the festivities but can the
help of the delightful newcome Finn get Meredith to begin to embrace the
festive spirit and create new heartwarming feelings for Christmas?
Cressida really does have a skill at creating idyllic villages
with endearing characters and this book is no exception. Meredith touched my
heart and I loved following her every step of the way as she slowly began to open
her heart and embrace the festivities. Finn was also such a loveable gentleman
who brought a touch of romance to this sweet storyline.
There is only a brief mention of Charlie and our much loved
Cream Tea Bus which some may find surprising but before you get a chance to be disappointed
you are swept up in this festive romance with a wonderful community and friendship
that keeps the series fresh and exciting. I hope future books in the series
will see our characters merge together as they compliment each other. Easily
read as a standalone so do not feel like you have to go back and read the first
books in the series however you are COMPLETELY missing out on a fabulous series
if you don’t!
This book has certainly got me in the Christmas spirits with
its gift making, carol singing and gingerbread making all tied up in a bow, definitely
another cracker by this author.
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