To clear her mind, she sets off on early morning walks around a nearby lake and bumps into May, an older lady who is also new to the area, and her dapper Dachshund Monty. Quickly, a firm friendship blossoms. Then when Holly meets Bear, a rather large and rather attractive man, at the local pub, and his rescue dog Queenie, her stay at Nightingale Square suddenly feels even more appealing.
As the community comes together for the season’s festivities, Holly must start thinking about where her life will take her next. Some big decisions need to be made, but distractions close to home make thinking about the future more tricky than ever…
Will she get that festive feeling this Christmas…?
I am mad I know, only just dipping my toes into October and
I have already caved in and read my first Christmas book of 2023 but it was
impossible to resist when it is a Heidi Swain novel. That Festive Feeling is
the title of this years festive novel by this author and the cover is stunning
using my favourite winter colours of green gold and white to create a soft
chilly comforting vibe which I hoped would absorb through into the storyline
inside.
We meet newly divorced Holly who is so easy to relate to,
after finding herself alone and thinking ahead to the next step of where her life
goes from here, where does she live and a troubling problem of what does she do
now it seems her love of her job has lost its excitement. Luckily her friends who
live in Nightingale square offer her a bit of breathing space house sitting for
them whilst they are away over Christmas. But the peace and tranquillity she
was hoping for to get her head together never seemed to be an option as she is
soon pulled into many welcoming arms!
We are reunited with many much-loved characters from the
Nightingale Square which makes us as the reader feel as though we are being
welcomed home but if you haven’t read any of the others not to worry as this
can easily be read as a standalone.
As well as reuniting with past characters and meeting the
lovely Holly we also have the gorgeous Bear to provide a little bit of love in
the air and also the lovely May and her wonderfully dressed dog Monty and they
all come together to make this a thoroughly enjoyable cosy winter read.
The author has really covered the topic of living alone
after divorce and loss well in the book tackling those struggles of finding
where you fit now your alone and learning to make decisions on your own again
after so long of making decisions together. So often after separation it feels
like everything else around you is about to come crumbling down and thanks to
those around Holly they open up her eyes to different options available to her
as well as giving her a big helping of support which we know is always plentiful
in Heidi Swain novels, oh how I would love to crawl into her written worlds.
There is a wonderful little sprinkling of festivity with
this being set around Christmas time and this has been a fabulous start to my Festive
reading, I knew Heidi Swain wouldn’t let me down!
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