A lovely Christmas novel by Sarah Morgan which I really enjoyed.

It is set in the snowy Scottish Highlands and is told from the viewpoint of four sisters. I found the characters are believable and interesting. Lovely location with great descriptions of the snowy setting. A lovely story of heartbreak, family relationships and a great ending.

This is a perfect Christmas read to curl up in front of a fire and enjoy with a lovely cuppa.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

I saved this book to read around Christmastime as it is the only time I read "chick-lit". I did enjoy it as there was enough of a back story about the family to make it a little bit more interesting and substanced. Still very twee though, but hey - it's Christmas!

Suzanne McBride is excited to have her all three of her daughters home for Christmas. She is busy making sure everything is just right for everyone but things are far from perfect... Beth arrives home early, without her children, her husband and her luggage. Hannah also turns up early looking red eyed and hiding a pregnancy test in her bag and Posy wants to leave her hometown and go travelling but she feels obligated to stay and help her Mum run the local cafe. The three sisters are fiercely different but can they help and support each other or will past tragedy and secrets get in the way?

I loved this novel! Each chapter takes the point of view of one of these women, giving us the opportunity to learn how they see each other, how differently see the same situations and what their personal troubles are. I was absorbed into their worlds immediately, it has the perfect balance of funny, frustrating, romantic and heartfelt moments. As Morgan weaves the past tragedy though the pages slowly revelling what happened and why the rifts between the family exist. Can they breakdown the barriers in time to have a perfect cosy Christmas that Suzanne was hoping for? A fabulous Christmas read with heart, treat yourself, get cosy, put your feet up with a hot chocolate and be taken to the snowy Scottish Highlands with the McBride gang - I couldn't put it down until I turned the very last page.

Thanks to NetGalley & Harper Collins UK for sending me this in exchange for an open and honest review.

With thanks to Netgalley and HQ for this ARC in exchange for an open and honest review.

The Christmas Sisters are Beth, Hannah and Posy McBride. At christmas twenty five years earlier the girls parents Cheryl and Rob were killed in a mountain avalanche. After the accident the girls were brought up by Cheryl`s best friend Suzanne and her husband Stewart. Suzanne, Stewart and the girls left the US to live in Glensay, a remote part of Scotland to start again.

In the present day Beth and Hannah now live in New York. Hannah is a successful career woman. She had only had been in short term relationships until she met work colleague Adam six months earlier. Scared of commitment she suspects she is pregnant..

Yummy Mummy Beth Is married to Jason and have two daughters Melly and Ruby. After being at home for the last seven years Beth`s confidence soared after she was contacted by someone offering her a job. When she tried to tell Jason he told he thought they should have another baby. However Jason wanted Beth to stay at home and try for another baby

Posy was the youngest and remained in Glensay to be near Suzanne and Stewart. Happy in Glensay, Posy works in part time in mountain rescue and also in her mother`s cafe. However when author/mountain climber Luke appears she longs to go abroad and climb mountains abroad.

At Christmas Hannah and Beth travel back to Glensay to celebrate as a family. However the reunion is marred by the long-lasting events of the avalanche twenty five years earlier.

Each chapter told the POV of Hannah, Beth, Posy and Suzanne. The most interesting sister was Hannah, it was sad how her difficult relationship with her father Rob travelled into adulthood. I also liked Beth who was so worried about her children she over protected them.

I really liked this book and the scenes where Hannah opened up to Posy and Susanne were beautifully done. The book also had its funny moments when Beth brought her emergency make up bag on a last minute dash to the airport.

This was a perfect Christmas story filled with hope and forgiveness.

Firstly thank you to Net Galley and the publishers for an ARC in return for an honest review.

The Christmas Sisters isn't my usual go to genre but I do stray the genre lines at Christmas time! I am glad it was this I strayed for. I liked the characters, although they are not all warm and fuzzy, they are real. I could relate, in part, to each of them. The storyline was solid, it didn't meander off piste (no mountain pun intended!) at all. Overall The Christmas Sisters is a well written, family orientated, wintertime story.
If you enjoy a good, heartwarming book at Christmas then reach for this one!

Such an atmospheric, festive story about a family born out of a tragedy, which defines their relationships and still haunts them years later. The sisters have all followed different paths as adults. Each feels the other has a perfect life but the reality is more complex.

This is a story about mothers, daughters and sisters, and the characters are beautifully written with believable flaws making them easy to empathise. Told from multi-points of view the backstory is cleverly woven into the plot, so that you understand the family dynamics and why Christmas is a source of stress for the McBrides.

This a lovely story, perfect as a festive read. Angst, fear, misunderstanding and romance all wrapped up in a poignant family drama that captures what it's like to have sisters and how a caring family loves you, no matter what.

I received a copy of this book from Harper Collins UK - HQ via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

Loved this book which was my first by this author. Looking at the lives of 3 sisters and the families. Such a contrast of lives but as Christmas comes those lives meet and intertwined but how successful you will have to read. I can’t wait to read more from the author. This is a must read if you like Sarah’s books, Christmas or just a good read this Christmas time especially if you have time off.

I’ve not read a Sarah Morgan book before but I enjoyed how it gave me a great festive hug so I will be 100% open to reading more from her!

This was a story about forgiveness, love and life. About accepting the past and the future and knowing that even in times of need you can trust upon your family. I enjoyed reading about all of the sisters, Beth, Hannah and Posy and how each one of them plus Suzanne came together in times of need.

25 years ago, the girls lost both of their parents in an avalanche in Scotland. Suzanne, who was the only survivor on the mountain that day was also the girls real mums best friend and took the girls under her wing to nurture and care for them.

As you can see, the family hadn’t had an easy life and whilst some had more resilience than others you could tell the past was haunting all four of the women in different ways.

Each one of the sisters and Suzanne had a voice throughout and I really enjoyed hearing how they each saw each other and they were dealing with the everyday troubles in their own life’s that and how they came together to help each other out.

I really did enjoy reading this book, it had more depth than a Christmas book normally has and that just gave it a little something extra, it was nice. In fact I finished the book off in a two hour bath, I simply couldn’t put it down.

What a lovely heartwarming story that follows the lifes of three sisters who tragically lost their parents when they were children. The story picks up when they are adults each coping with their grief in their own ways. As they each return to their childhood sanctuary to spend Christmas with their adoptive parents they all learn how to love each other and for once accept the past and become the loving family they always wanted. I really enjoyed this book, it was a first for me by this author and I have already looked at her other titles which I will definitely be reading in the future.

This is a heart warming and emotional read that is perfect for a cold winters day. The characters draw you in from the start and the story kept me entertained throughout. I really enjoyed this book and will read more from this author in future.

I have read a few of Sarah’s books now and in their own way, each has emotionally affected me but not in a bad way. I always count down the days until the release of Sarah’s new book but the wait is over for the time being because ‘The Christmas Sisters’ was released on 1st November 2018. I absolutely adored reading it but more about that in a bit.
The four main characters are Suzanne McBride and her daughters Posy, Hannah and Beth. Suzanne loves having all her girls at home for Christmas even if the preparations do stress her out a bit. Towards the beginning of the book, Suzanne is having a nightmare. It isn’t immediately apparent why she is having the nightmare but as the book continues little nuggets of information come out and it all becomes clear. Posy is the only daughter who still lives near her mother and works with her in the family café. Posy keeps herself to herself but she is still suffering the after effects of something that happened in her past. She doesn’t always get on with her sister Hannah, who to be blunt seems a little bit up herself. Posy wants to show Hannah affection but Hannah always seems to keep a distance between herself and her sisters and her mother. Hannah is a dedicated business woman, who truly is a workaholic. She works very long days and I think that she would work 24/7 if she could. She doesn’t make friends easily. Hannah is going back to her parents’ house for Christmas but even that isn’t plain sailing. Besides Hannah is nursing a secret that could potentially change her life for ever. Out of the three sisters, I felt for Beth most of all. She is a former career woman, who gave it up to be a stay at home mother. However, she is getting rather restless and although she dearly loves her children, she feels bored and in need of a challenge. She is offered some work but she isn’t sure that she can take it for one reason and another. Beth tries to keep a sisterly relationship going with Hannah in that she invites her over for tea (dinner) to catch up with her and to let the children get to know their Auntie Hannah. Hannah has cancelled on her on more than one occasion and Beth feels understandably hurt by this because she thinks that Hannah is avoiding visiting their home because it’s too small or too messy and she is definitely avoiding interacting with the children. I could see where Beth is coming from with her feelings being hurt and I did want to slap Hannah with a wet flip flop on more than one occasion for something that she said or did. Each of the sisters is still affected by issues to do with their past and I am not sure that they have dealt with them properly yet. Christmas and the sisters and their parents is going to be interesting. Will Hannah realise that there is more to life than work? Will Beth return to work? Will Posy find love? Well for the answers to those questions and more you are just going to have to read the book for yourselves to find out because I am not going to tell you.
Oh my word, ‘The Christmas Sisters’ has to be one of my favourite reads of 2018. I was captivated by the story and it was as if the book cast a spell over me because I literally could not stop reading. The author’s writing style is such that you cannot avoid being drawn into the book and before you know it you are addicted. That’s what happened to me anyway. I became so addicted that if I had to put the book down for whatever reason, then I would find any excuse to get back to reading it. The book wasn’t exactly glued to my hand but it might as well have been because it came everywhere with me. I begrudged having to break off from reading, which did not go down too well with my lovely but loopy Labradors. I would desperately try to ration how much I read in one sitting because I didn’t want to finish the book too quickly. That attempt at rationing was soon thrown out of the window because I was enjoying the author’s writing style, the storylines and the characters so much that I just carried on reading. Of course this meant that I finished the book far quicker than I had intended. Reading ‘The Christmas Sisters’ was definitely like being on an emotional rollercoaster ride. I would go from wanting to sob to wanting to laugh and so on and so forth. I haven’t known a book affect me so emotionally in a long, long time.
In short I absolutely adored reading ‘The Christmas Sisters’ and it has to be up there on my list of 20 favourite reads of 2018. Sarah Morgan writes so compassionately and realistically that even the most hard hearted of her readers will find it hard to avoid being emotionally affected by the book. I would definitely recommend this author and her books to other readers. I can’t wait to read what Sarah comes up with next. The score on the Ginger Book Geek board is a very well deserved 5* out of 5*.

I enjoy Christmas and I like to read a Christmas novel but I usually have to be aware that it will be full of decorous young ladies, handsome men and of course falling in love; the icing on the cake will be the beautiful snow scene that appears when looking out on Christmas morning.

However, although I received this book via Netgalley expecting more of the same I was in for a very pleasant surprise. Firstly it is set in the depths of Scotland and from the outset the scene is one of snow and ice, which whilst attractive can also prove to be very dangerous. The heroines are admittedly very attractive but they each have their own, compelling story and I quickly became invested in them emotionally.

Yes, it is a romantic novel but it is also a thought provoking one, no frippery here, and I thoroughly recommend it.

If you pick up a Sarah Morgan book you know that it is money well spent as you will experience an enjoyable and entertaining read. Sarah's characters have depth and appear very real. This story is true to form. Three sisters - each with different backgrounds and experiences of life, each with different needs, find themselves, through force of circumstance, sharing their first Christmas in years around the kitchen table in their family home in Scotland. It would appear that, this year, Christmas is going to be awkward and uncomfortable, a trial to be endured. But,through a series of different events, Christmas turns out to be a healing and happy time.. As always, a very enjoyable and seasonal book.

I absolutely loved this story. It's got everything you need when you want to curl up on a cold winters day and immerse yourself in a tale of love and loss, of happiness and hope. It's a great page turner and I found it hard to put it down!

A wonderful feel good Christmas story of sister's overcoming their demons and getting to know themselves better as adults than they did as children.

I read this in one sitting and it is definitely one to read over the Christmas holiday.

Heartwarming, easy to read and thoroughly enjoyable. Just the book to curl up with in front of the fire on a winters afternoon. Poignant and romantic, thoroughly enjoyed and recommended.

Hannah, Beth and Posy are young three sisters who were orphaned at Christmas time when both parents were killed whilst mountain climbing. Their moms best friend, Suzanne was the only survivor of the accident but immediately took the girls into their home and raised them as her own with husband Stewart. Each person dealt with their grief differently apart from one part .... none of them ever spoke about the accident and the emotions they felt afterwards. Each Christmas, feeling under obligation to return home to all be together but dreading the idea of returning home to all be together - they try their best to either avoid it or they all walk on egg shells around each other. Twenty five years later, each sister finds themselves in the middle of their own crisis that turns their lives upside down and they all choose to return home early to try to figure out what to do but without letting the others know what is going on. Events take a turn and they find themselves thrown together and they finally open up about that fateful day and how it made them feel and they soon realise that each of them struggled and wished that they had dealt with it differently.

This is a lovely story of how families perceive their relationship with siblings to be even though it is usually very different in reality. It was great to read how slowly and gradually they opened up to each other and then helped and supported each other through their own crisis to become the close, happy relaxed family they could have been if they had only been honest with each other. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

5☆ A Heartwarming, Poignant and Enchanting Romance.

The Christmas Sisters is a Heartwarming, Poignant and Touching story of Family, Relationships, Secrets, New Beginnings and a sprinkle or Romance and Festive Magic.

Beth, Hannah and Posy are all sisters.
But their relationships are far from rosy. They barely speak, or get together, their relationship is strained and somewhat Taut.
Suzanne their Mother, is desperate to bring the family back together this Christmas.

But with a tragic accident in the past, Secrets, nightmares, guilt and fraught relationships, can Suzanne repair her family or is it all too late?

Each of the chapters are told by each characters points of view, which I really enjoyed. I found myself excited to get to the next chapter to find out more.

Each of the Sisters are very different. Hannah is a closed Book, emotionally shut off, kept her secrets to herself, threw herself into work. Just starting a budding relationshio with the handsome Adam, who just gets her!

Beth a mum of two, she appears to be struggling with motherhood, and seems to feel slightly suffocated, and in need of gaining a lil independence back, as she contemplates going back to work.

Posy the youngest sister, she's very carefree and has a wonderful endearing charm about her. Working on the mountain rescue with her adorable fur Baby.

I really connected with each of the characters, they were all so deeply flawed, yet endearing and likeable. I was willing for them to open up and communicate with each other, as that's exactly what needed to happen... too many painful buried feelings and hurt. I really did feel for each of them.

The Christmas Sisters is a poignant Story about Family, Loss, Grief, Relationships, Trust, Forgiveness, Acceptance, finding Love, New Beginnings and coming together, with a good dose of Christmas Magic.
But don't worry there is also plenty of sisterly drama, Witt, humour and romance to keep you hooked.

Sarah Morgan has weaved her magic once again, she always writes the most heartwarming, compelling, mesmerising and amazing stories.
With loveable colourful characters and an endearing storyline, I found i devoured this beautifully Enchanting Story in one go.

Thank you to Isabel at HQ Digital for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

The Christmas Sister is the perfect read, I loved every minute of it, Sarah Morgan is an amazing author, the way in which she writes make you picture the perfect setting in your mind.

I love a good Christmas read; especially those that leave me with that warm and cosy feeling and The Christmas Sisters ticks all the boxes!

Suzanne McBride and her husband Stuart live in Scotland with their youngest daughter, Posy, nearby. Posy's two sisters, however, live in the US and each year Suzanne goes all out to create the perfect Christmas, hoping the whole family will head home and finally all the underlying currents will disappear and they will enjoy the family festivities as one. With everyone following their own path, is that even possible?

This one has a bit of everything .. love, history, family pressures, danger, excitement and - as with every great Christmas tale - snow! A packed story from beginning to end, with lots of revelations and typical family feelings coming to the fore which all adds up to a wonderful winter read which has left me full of festive spirit and really looking forward to the Christmas season. One to add to your December reading list without a doubt!

My thanks to publisher Harper Collins for my copy via NetGalley. This is my honest, original and unbiased review.