#BlogTour: 25 Days In December by Poppy Alexander @SarahWaights @orionbooks @AlainnaGeorgiou #25DaysInDecember #PoppyAlexander

Book Synopsis:

You can’t plan for the unexpected…

Kate Potter used to know what happiness felt like.

A few years ago, she was full of energy, excited by every possibility. But that was back when everything was different, before Kate’s husband went away with the army and didn’t come home. She can’t even remember what it felt like to be in love.

Then Kate meets Daniel. Recognising her loneliness reflected in his eyes, Kate vows to try and help bring him out of his shell. But as Kate plans to bring life back to Daniel, she might have stumbled on the secret to happiness…

Can one chance meeting change two lives?

25 Days In December is available in ebook and paperback now. You can purchase your copy using the link below.

My Review:

25 days in December is the perfect, heartwarming festive read which I absolutely loved reading and didn’t want to end!

The story follows Kate and Daniel as they try and prepare for the Christmas season which they are finding hard due to individual circumstances. I really enjoyed following them throughout the book with all the near misses the two of them have until they finally meet. I felt this story let’s the reader into the characters personal lives as we get a fly on the wall, intimate view of them which made me feel that I knew them personally.

This book touches on some quite hard subjects which I wasn’t expecting and this leads to some emotional scenes. The author cleverly manages to show the two sides of Christmas, the magical side but also the difficulties some families can face. This really made me think and ensured that I kept thinking about it long after I finished reading it.

The book is divided into the 25 days of Christmas which makes it very easy to read and put down if you wish. I liked Poppy’s advent calendar idea of doing something festive each day instead of a traditional calender. I’d love to do that in future years.

Overall I thought this was an absorbing, beautifully written and plotted book which is just perfect for this time of year. It would make a great book club read as I think there is lots to discuss.

Huge thanks to Alainna from Orion for inviting me onto the blog tour and for my copy of this book via Netgalley.

About The Author:

Poppy Alexander wrote her first book when she was five. There was a long gap in her writing career while she was at school, and after studying classical music at university, she decided the world of music was better off without her and took up public relations, campaigning, political lobbying and a bit of journalism instead. She takes an anthropological interest in family, friends and life in her West Sussex village (think, The Archers crossed with Twin Peaks) where she lives with her husband, children and various other pets. Poppy also writes as Rosie Howard and Sarah Waights.