Christmas at the Island Hotel by Jenny Colgan

On the tiny Scottish island of Mure, Christmas preparations are even more hectic than usual . . .

Author: Jenny Colgan

Genre: Chic Lit

Tags: Christmas, Mure, Scotland, Scottish Islands

Series: Mure

Published: October 15th 2020

Page Count: 352

Categories: Audible, Read in 2020

Once I started this book I realised that it was book 4 in the series and hadn't read any of the others. Although Colgan attempts to bring readers up to speed to appreciate the story however I feel it would have been helpful to read the other books in the series. I enjoyed the storyline with plenty of humour, love and family interactions. I plan on reading the other books in this series.

Flora Mackenzie is worried about her brother. Fintan hasn’t got over the death of his partner, Coltan, and Flora thinks he needs a project.

The Rock – the rambling, disused hotel on the tip of the island – was Coltan’s passion project before he died. With Flora’s help, Fintan is going to get the hotel up and running in time for Christmas, transforming it into a festive haven of crackling log fires and delicious food. But running a hotel, they are about to discover, is not that easy. Especially when their motley staff includes a temperamental French chef, a spoilt Norwegian kitchen boy who can’t peel a potato without mutilating his own hand and a painfully shy kitchen assistant who blushes when anyone speaks to her.

Can they pull it together in time for the big opening?

And can Flora help her family find happiness this Christmas?