Good afternoon everyone and happy Friday. I’m excited to share a Book Spotlight for Christmas By Candlelight by Karen Swan today.
I absolutely love Karen’s books, especially her Christmas ones as they are always wonderfully festive and help get me into the Christmas Spirit. I was thrilled to receive a copy of this, her latest book and I look forward to reading this on the run up to Christmas.
Huge thanks to the lovely Chloe from Pan Macmillan for my copy of this book which is out on the 26th October 2023.
Do you like festive books? When do you start reading them?
Book Synopsis:
Snowed in for the holidays . . .
It’s three days before Christmas and starting to snow when high-flier Libby and her new boyfriend reluctantly attend her university reunion on the way back from a wedding in Yorkshire.
Hosted by Archie Templeton – the heartbreaker of their group – at his grand family estate, the night is a great success until they go to leave: the road is now impassable and they’re given a bed for the night.
At first, being snowed in together is fun as the old friends wait in high spirits for the farmer to clear a path. But as hours pass with no news, everyone grows restless.
Then the power goes out . . .
Hunkered down together by candlelight, they reminisce about old times – and tensions soon start to rise. Secrets from the past begin to unravel and Libby is confronted with a truth she has long tried to deny.
About The Author:
Karen Swan is the Sunday Times Top Three and international best-selling author. Her novels sell all over the world and she writes two books each year – one for the summer period and one for the Christmas season. Her books are known for their evocative locations and Karen sees travel as vital research for each story. She loves to set deep, complicated love stories within twisting plots.
The Last Summer is the first book in her five-book historical series called The Wild Isle Girls, set around the dramatic evacuation of the Scottish island St Kilda in the summer of 1930. It was partly inspired by Karen’s Scottish roots: her father’s family came from Skye, moving to Fort William where Karen was christened and where many of her family still live. Her childhood memories are full of Christmases, Hogmanay and summer holidays spent in the Highlands and she was married there in 2001.
She lives in Sussex with her husband, three children and two dogs.
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