🎄Festive Book Review ~ Maybe Next Christmas by Emma Heatherington

Penguin
October 2024

Thanks to the publishers for my copy of this book

This Christmas they're strangers. Maybe next Christmas they'll fall in love...

It’s Christmas Eve and, as the snow begins to fall, Bea is at Heathrow airport, ready to return home to Ireland for the festivities.

There, she meets Ollie for the first time. They talk about everything and anything, and their connection is undeniable. But when their flight lands, they leave just as they met: strangers.

A chance encounter in London a few months later, however, sparks a chain of events neither of them could have ever imagined.

Last Christmas was just the beginning. This year will be full of surprises.

And next Christmas may be the one that changes everything...

🎄 My Review..

Bea and Ollie meet when their flight home to Ireland for Christmas is delayed. These two strangers, although having met in unusual circumstances, find a shared connection but unfortunately it may well be the right place, however, it’s certainly not the right time for a relationship to go any further. What then follows is a delightful story which follows both Bea and Ollie as they go about their lives and yet neither forgets the other and the endless possibilities of something which could have been beautiful. 

I’ve been quite enchanted by Bea and Ollie and invested so much emotionally in each of their characters and followed their individual stories with real enthusiasm. Such is the power of the story that it kept me turning the pages long after I should have stopped reading to do something else. There is an element of will, they won’t they about the story but ultimately I hoped that this two lovely characters would get the happy ending they each deserved. The author writes beautifully and creates time and place really well, I could imagine the hustle and bustle of Bea’s London life juxtaposed against the peace and tranquillity of Ollie’s rural Ireland. 

An absolute delight to read from start to finish Maybe Next Christmas concludes my festive reading for 2024 and what a lovely way to finish.

About The Author 

Emma Heatherington is the Irish Times and international best-selling author of fifteen novels, including UK Number One Ebook THIS CHRISTMAS, as well as Amazon Top 10 and USA Kindle hits THE LEGACY OF LUCY HARTE, ONE MORE DAY, THE PROMISE and SECRETS IN THE SNOW.

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