Eva is obsessed with expanding her business. She has spent the last three years trying to forget everything that happened on one Christmas day which changed everything.

This year, just before the launch of her shop, her husband, James insists that they go to deepest, darkest Cornwall to their friends, Kian and Hallie's Christmas Party.

This is the last place that Eva wants to be. There is just too much that she still needs to do for the grand opening of her shop. In the middle of the night, Eva sneaks out of the house, to go back to London but at the stroke of Midnight, the ghost of Eva's Gran arrives to let her know that she needs to make some changes before it's too late.

As Eva lives Christmas Day, over and over again, in the bodies of her closest friends, she sees herself through their eyes and realises just what she might lose.

This took a long time to get going and I was very nearly at the point of DNFing when it finally began to show some promise.

It's not a fluffy, cosy Christmas book and reminded me of Freaky Friday but I don't feel that it was executed as well as it could have been.
Shame really.

Thank you NetGalley & Avon Books for approving this ARC.

Il be honest I was expecting this book to be a fluffy Christmas story, but I was pleasantly surprised it was so much more.

Eva has spent the last 3 years going through life and not really living, she's pushed away her husband and her friends, she also puts a lot of pressure on her assistant all while she is trying to launch the opening of her own shop.

Eva has never really dealt with her grief following what happened 3 years ago and this Christmas her husband James asks her to just be in the moment with him for a couple of days before it's too late for them.

Things don't go as they should and Eva finds herself reunited with the ghost of her nan and she is given the chance to relive Christmas day through the eyes of the women in her life and how they see her, what they are going through from her assistant, to best friend and too the staff who are working in the Manor house they are staying at over Christmas.

Rahcel managed to captivate each person's POV but told via Eva and wasn't biased to her, there are some emotional scenes but overall, this is a great read if you want a slightly less fluffy Christmas story.

eeeehhhhh. a lot of christmas books in my opinion don't capture the actual feelings that i personally associate with christmas. i liked the concept in theory but the execution didn't land

I absolutely loved this book. It took me a while to get to but I'm glad I did. A spectacular Christmas book (read in April!)

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

Beautifully told, I was engaged from start to finished and enjoyed the descriptive writing style of the author, A recommended read.

Wasn’t one of my favourite reads
I read it till the end
But it didn’t draw me in
Would still read more by this author
Thanks NetGalley

Beautiful story about reconnecting with the ones you love!

Eva & James fell in love over a library bookshelf, over the next 10 years they fell in love, got married and prepared for a family until one Christmas three years ago, since then they’ve been drifting apart.

Hoping to reconnect at a friends Christmas party in a familiar old Manor House in Cornwall, Eva unexpectedly wakes up in the body of a different guest, reliving Christmas Day from different perspectives of those closest to her.

I cried many tears reading this, how we don’t realise how much we are hurting others when just trying to deal with life yourself, how not letting others in or help you hurts them too but we are blind to it.
It was an emotional rollercoaster but a necessary one and had a beautiful ending.

Eva has promised her husband that she’ll spend some time with him over Christmas. They’re going away with friends. For the last 3 years Eva has put all her time and energy into her new business after losing her gran and having a miscarriage. She’s lost interest in everything else, even her marriage is suffering. Can she keep to her promise or will her business rule her head?
Christmas morning isn’t great and when she awakes the next day she finds she’s reliving Christmas morning but in someone else’s body. It happens again and again, each time as a different person. She realises how much her life has fallen off track. Can she sort it out or is it too late??

Usually not a fan of groundhog day/ time loop books and I probably wouldnt have requested it had I not have been drawn in by the cover, but this was really spectacular!!

I really enjoyed this book. It was a new take on the groundhog day situation I haven't seen before and loved it mixed with Christmas.

This is a perfect, feel-good, cosy up with the fire and Christmas tree lit behind you kind of book. Perfect Christmas read, simple and easy

The E-Book could be improved and more user-friendly, such as links to the chapters, no significant gaps between words and a cover for the book would be better. It is very document-like instead of a book. A star has been deducted because of this.

This is a first for me by the author and one I enjoyed and I would read more of their work. The book cover is eye-catching and appealing and would spark my interest if in a bookshop. Thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.

A modern take on A Christmas Carol crossed with Groundhog Day. The book is not afraid of emotionally taxing plot lines, with warnings for grief and miscarriages. You can tell that Eva is struggling in more ways than one from the start as she throws herself into work to avoid other troubles, and it's costing her more than she realises. In the rush to get her new business up and running, she sacrifices a lot, and with a Christmas break in the way of her launch she risks losing it all. Before her Christmas past ghost materialises and she sees herself through the eyes of those around her and gets the chance to change. Not an easy going, light-hearted read but still moving and you want to read on to see if Eva really can change her future.

This was a good take on time loop/Groundhog Day Christmas story. Eva is struggling to cope with her marriage, friendships and opening her new business after the death of her Gran. This story has her reliving Christmas Day through the eyes of her friends and loved ones, discovering things about each one and herself in the process. A good tale overall. Enjoyed it!

So this might not be your typical Christmas story but I did enjoy this one. It’s a bit of a mix between Groundhog Day and Freaky Friday!

Eva is a workaholic and to be honest I really wasn’t keen on her but as the story went on she did grow on me. I loved how as she experienced things from other’s perspectives she did begin to realise her mistakes!

It is so sad in places. But I was pleased that things were perhaps looking hopeful for Eva in the future.

I would liked to have learnt more about some of the other characters who were important in Eva’s life too. Like Hallie and Kian.

I was shocked to discover that this was a debut novel! I loved the authors writing style and I’m looking forward to reading more from this author in the future.

This was a really enjoyable Christmas read covering the story of Eva who has reached a crisis point in her life, following a period of grief and hiding herself away in other things. Suddenly over a Christmas away her gran re-appears to her and this is the cue for ghostly intervention.

I felt this was a very cleverly put together book that gave the right amount of time to introducing us to Eva’s life, the ghostly interventions and what happened following this intervention. Eva, and the reader, definitely goes on a rollercoaster of emotions seeing her life crisis from different viewpoints, and there are some hard hitting punches thrown in there too. I love the plotting of the book and the characters were cleverly written so that you ended up caring about all of them.

I loved the ending to the book and some of the messages that it delivered, as well as seeing the changes in Eva, it do be aware this isn’t all sunshine and roses.

I would definitely recommend this book, and would be keen to read more books by this author.

A modern take on A Christmas Carol, Eva has become so focused on building her business, that she has neglected her family and friends and has taken advantage of her employee.. A trip to a place close to her heart results in Eva reliving Christmas Eve, Is she dreaming, or is it an opportunity to put things right?

This wasn’t exactly what I expected and isn’t what I usually choose for my Christmas reads (I prefer something more lighthearted). It did feel long-winded, with me wondering what the point was for about a quarter of the book. However, it did pick up and, by about half way through, I was really interested in how it would work out and I really wanted it to work for Eva.

This book is worth a read - just stick with it!

A Christmas Carol meets freaky Friday. I really enjoyed this one. It’s not a ‘feel good’ Christmas book, however I think it has a lot to say about society and the pressure we put on ourselves and others when it comes to work.

Eve’s life is a mess, she’s spending so much time opening a business that she’s let go of friends, ignoring her partner and working so hard she’s not taking care of herself either. She attends a Christmas party, is haunted by ghosts, body swaps with her friends while reliving the same Christmas morning over and over again until she learns more about them, about herself and about what’s really important.

Trigger warnings: Miscarriage and child-loss

I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley. All opinions are my own.

3.5 🌟

Thank you to netgalley for an arc of this book!

This was a lot darker than I expected but it’s a very real portrayal of how things can derail because of grief. Eva has lost her way and by going through all this she was able to see what she’s been missing for the past 3 years.

I didn’t expect the big event towards the end as I thought it would end differently, but it does have a good message that not everything can be controlled and end up how you want.

I couldn’t give more than 3.5 🌟 purely because I wouldn’t read it again but it was a good book that helps to put out messages to the reader.

Perfect read for December - nothing gets you in the mood for the holiday season quite like some timey-whimey magic!

This was a surprising Christmas read that really brought on the tears (unexpectedly). I loved the idea of reliving the same day through other people’s eyes to really reflect on what is happening around you.