Bea lives in London and works for the Carnation Hotel opposite Kensington Palace, he boyfried Sean runs his own farm in Southern Ireland. It is Christmas Eve and Bea is flying home to Ireland to spend it with her family and also break up with Sean.

At the airport she meets Ollie, a Cardiac nurse who works in London but is also flying home to spend Christmas with his family. Therir flight is delayed so they spend several hours chatting.

A beautiful story of love and relationships.

happy read, really cute and christmasy and fluffy. 10 out 10 read this book if u want something a little lighter to read. nothing wrong with a snowy book.

Thanks to netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Bella bumps into Ollie at the airport on Christmas Eve as they are both going home to Ireland for Christmas. They both can’t stop thinking about each other. Will there paths cross again or will they never see each other again.

A great book by Emma.

Bea and Ollie meet on Christmas Eve at the airport when their flight home to Ireland has been delayed and while they have an instant connection to one another, they can't really do much as Bea has a long term boyfriend who lives in Ireland.

The story takes place over the course of a year so it starts and finishes at Christmas but the road to Bea and Ollie getting together isn't an easy one. After Bea splits up from Sean (quite amicably), she's reluctant to rush into something with Ollie, so they spend some time together as friends, getting to know one another. But after Ollie's father passes away, he accepts a job back in Ireland and heads home to the B&B his parents owned to do it up and start running it again.

Bea and Ollie are over before they even had a chance to begin but it doesn't take them long to realise they want to be together but they both recognise one of them is going to have make the big move and leave their current life behind to make things worse.

This is such a sweet story and I really liked both Bea and Ollie as characters. They're both mature and know what they want from their lives and neither of them are really willing to settle for something less. They've both experienced loss, and this seems to help guide them both to find the answers to what they're looking for.

Thanks to NetGalley & Penguin for the opportunity to read and review this ARC.

What can i say, this was such a heartwarming book to read and made me have so many emotions. This would make a lovely Christmas movie. The story is about Bea and Ollie, they meet when their flight home for Christmas is delayed, and end up having dinner and a long chat in the departure.. Never expecting to see each other again. But then they end up sitting next to each other on the flight home too

A wonderful cosy seasonal read , a lot in this genre can be utter tripe with no plot or storyline other than the season of Christmas . However , the back story is believable the meet cute at the airport and the development of the story and characters is pure hot chocolate on a winters day by the fire , I’d highly recommend it and would
Read again next Christmas

Last year I read This Christmas by Emma and really enjoyed it, giving me major The Holiday vibes so I was really looking forward to reading another book by her and boy it didn’t disappoint.

I loved how all of the stories integrated together with this and although you know there’s going to be a happy ending it seems to take a while to get there, when everything clicks into place it’s so good though!

There are a few emotional moments to this book because you find yourself getting connected to the characters - especially with Ollie’s job in the A&E, a lot of his patients are such characters!

This was a gorgeous read to curl up with, get yourself in front of a fire with a hot chocolate and get yourself settled for the night!

⭐️3⭐️
 
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC in exchange for an honest, unbiased review.
 
I read This Christmas by Emma Heatherington last year and absolutely loved it, so I was really looking forward to reading Maybe Next Christmas; unfortunately, it didn’t quite hit the mark for me.
 
The book is well written, and I liked the storyline (albeit predictable). I loved Ollie, but I just couldn’t warm to Bea at all and found her irritating, and I wasn't convinced by their dialogue.
 
It's an easy festive read, but sadly it was just missing a bit of Christmas magic for me.

A great read and perfect the cosy season!

I found this a great one to read after a few heavier books, it was a simple romcom but really well written and lovely characters.

This is a gorgeous Christmassy read, I instantly connected and fell in love with the main characters of Bea and Ollie. They are fantastic, very realistic, incredibly likeable and really touched my heart. They have a beautiful story, full of twists and will they won't they? I was caught up in their story and wishing for the best, meaning I went on an emotional rollercoaster with them. Everything about this plot is perfection.
The setting of London and Ireland was gorgeous and felt like an escape. Setting it largely around two Christmas periods meant I got to soak up Christmas vibes and feel cosy.
This is emotional and complete perfection.
Thank you to NetGalley and Random House UK for an advance copy.

Now THIS, is EVERYTHING I wanted from a Christmas book!

Bea & Ollie meet as strangers at an airport in London on Christmas Eve, when their flight gets delayed. Bea is working in a prestigious London hotel as chief front of house and is going home to her family and her fiancée. Ollie works as a nurse in a busy London hospital and is flying home to Ireland to visit his very sick Dad and his auntie for the holidays. When these two cram in together at a table of a bar to eat while they wait for their flight, they have an instant connection.

I don’t want to say much more, but both have their own personal troubles that play heavy on their minds and while both dealing with the turmoil of their lives, neither of them can forget the other.

This could easily be made into a film. I thought it was so beautifully crafted. I felt like I was in London with the Christmas lights and London buses and Christmas shopping one minute and then I was transported to the rural Irish villages, with the cosy pub with a roaring fire, full of families and friends and music.

The older characters in this book added so much love and emotion and depth to the story.

Last year I read ‘This Christmas’ by the same author and I wasn’t really keen, despite everyone else loving it. But this… this is a 5⭐️ for sure and I urge everybody to put in highest up on their books to read next Christmas .

Thank you so much to @netgalley for this one. It will live on in my heart for a long time.

Maybe Next Christmas by Emma Heatherington is a cosy holiday romance that, for me falls into the trap of being overly saccharine and predictable but if you like cosy holiday reads then you may love it. The story follows Bea, who meets Ollie on Christmas Eve, leading to a series of events that are meant to be heart-warming but often feel clichéd. I did love the meet-cute in the airport and how they were sitting beside each other on the flight so the book really was heading in the right direction for me. However my gripe was the lack of balance in the relationship dynamics. Bea seems to be the one making all the significant changes and sacrifices, which I feel would be frustrating for readers who prefer to see a more equitable give-and-take in romantic relationships.
The festive setting and premise are charming, it’s perfect if you are looking for a light, feel-good read for the holidays!

I loved this book - you cannot help but like the two main characters Bea and Ollie, and really feel for them on their journey.

The main characters were also so loveable, I feel like Ollie’s Aunt Nora who loved finding out what the whole family were up too 😂

Theres a lot of emotions as you go through the book, and I highly recommend reading.

Maybe Next Christmas by Emma Heatherington @penguinukbooks and a NetGalley review. Bea and Ollie live in different worlds yet somehow their paths cross and just maybe it’s love at first sight. Their journey to each other is easy but it seems that’s these two are meant to be and maybe there’s a little bit of divine intervention at play!
I really enjoyed this sweet, cosy and romantic read, definitely not one to keep on your TBR just for Christmas. Bea the main character is focused, insanely organised at times, determined, stubborn, passionate and incredibly kind, someone you would want fighting your corner. They are both vulnerable and scared of getting hurt. Ollie is also determined and focused, kind and is grieving, has the biggest heart and endearing. The author writes with a respectable honesty about death and grief, honouring grief and the way grief can hurt whether it’s someone that has passed recently or who have passed some years ago. For me that felt very relevant especially at Christmas, where grief no matter how long the passing can come at you at full pelt and knock you sideways. It’s very predictable but it’s such a tender and heart warming read that this can be forgiven and enjoyed. The characters and not just the main ones are incredibly likeable for example Leroy and Aunt Nora, bringing humour and wisdom from these two characters and so worth a mention in their own right. I loved this book I think that’s plan to see, it’s so very easy to read and get lost in which is down to the talent of the author and her writing. I will be recommending this to friends and family and for me it’s an easy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

A festive read that can be read at any time of the year. Although predominantly set around Christmas this book is the type you can read whenever and wherever you want. Bea and Ollie meet at the airport on Christmas Eve what follows is a story of will they won’t they with a bit of everything else thrown in. I laughed, I cried and I loved every chapter of this story.

I was invested in this one from the first page. I loved how the characters seemed to come alive to me and I was rooting for them from when they first met. Definitely one I will recommend as a lovely festive read.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the early copy of this book

On Christmas Eve, Bea meets Ollie while they’re both waiting for a flight from London to Ireland for the holidays. Bea is heading home to break up with her long term boyfriend and Ollie is heading back for a last Christmas with his terminally ill Dad. They get chatting after their flight is delayed and then part ways. But neither can forget the other until fate intervenes and they meet again.

The story happens over a year between Christmases and is told from both Bea and Ollie’s POVs. It’s sweet, romantic and the characters are genuinely nice people who you root for all the way through. They’re both dealing with life’s struggles, grief and loss but neither wallow in it and just want to help others.

Just like Emma Heatherington’s previous Christmas novel, this was a lovely festive story with a nice romance, loveable characters and a great supporting cast.

4.0 ⭐️

Thanks to NetGalley, Random House UK, Cornerstone and Penguin for this eARC

Wow, what an emotional ride this book took me on. I usually go for more lighthearted romance books but I’m glad I stuck with this one and gave it a fair shot, because this book is utterly charming. It’s full of cosy, festive vibes, real gut-punching romance and a HEA that warmed my heart. Really very few negatives - just the character dialogue feeling a bit old (I’m their age and I just don’t talk like that), and maybe a few repetitive thoughts, but overall, a really fantastic Christmas book.
Trigger warning - death, death of a parent, terminal illness, cancer, and medical content. I might have been put off reading if I hadn’t already known in advance.

A lovely easy Christmas read, perfect to get you in a romantic frame of mind for the season. I enjoyed the story and the way it unfolded, even if it was a little predictable to me.

What a perfect Christmas hug in a book!
Fate brings Bea and Ollie into each other’s lives on Christmas Eve as they wait for a delayed flight home. Both of them are facing difficult situations at home in Ireland: Bea a long distance relationship that is dwindling with the distance and Ollie a sick father. Will fate conspire to bring them together again? Only time will tell. This is a lovely story of love, family, friendship and caring: a beautiful, heart warming Christmas romance that’s just the book to curl up on the sofa with a hot chocolate with under a warm blanket.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher, Penguin Random House UK for a copy in exchange for a review.