Christmas at the Island Hotel: From the bestselling author of feel-good festive fiction (Mure)
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Escape with Jenny Colgan this Christmas . . .
‘Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan’
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‘An evocative, sweet treat’ Jojo Moyes
‘This sweet romance will lift your spirits’Sunday Mirror
‘Gorgeous, glorious, uplifting’ Marian Keyes
‘Irresistible’ Jill Mansell
‘Just lovely’ Katie Fforde
‘Naturally funny, warm-hearted’ Lisa Jewell
‘A gobble-it-all-up-in-one-sitting kind of book’ Mike Gayle
‘A sheer delight from start to finish’ Sophie Kinsella
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On the tiny Scottish island of Mure, Christmas preparations are even more hectic than usual . . .
Flora MacKenzie is worried about her brother. Fintan hasn’t got over the death of his partner, Colton, and Flora thinks he needs a project.
The Rock – the rambling, disused hotel on the tip of the island – was Colton’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?
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From the Publisher
ASIN : B085WNFHGR
Publisher : Sphere
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : 15 Oct. 2020
Language : English
File size : 5.9 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 374 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-0751580297
Page Flip : Enabled
Book 4 of 8 : Scottish Island of Mure
Best Sellers Rank: 14,862 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) 329 in General Humourous Fiction 361 in Holiday Fiction (Kindle Store) 423 in Holiday Romance (Books)
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Customers say
Customers find this book to be a cozy and easy Christmas read, with beautiful writing and deliciously funny moments. They love the series set in Mure and appreciate how new characters are introduced, while the story features wonderful life stories. Customers describe the book as heartwarming, with one noting it’s more cheerful than previous books, and another mentioning how the descriptions help readers imagine the island setting.
13 reviews for Christmas at the Island Hotel: From the bestselling author of feel-good festive fiction (Mure)
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Gilbster –
How good it is to be back in Mure!
I love Jenny Colgan’s Mure series, and it was a pleasure to be back amongst the MacKenzie family once more.Flora is meant to be on maternity leaving having had Douglas, but instead finds herself helping out at the Rock more and more, given Fintan is of course still grieving for Colton, but also finding himself whether he wants to be or not, in charge of seeing Colton’s dream come to fruition.A large amount of this story features the staff working in the kitchens of The Rock, including the fiery French chef Gaspard, Isla from the Seaside Kitchen who is incredibly shy, and Konstantin who is a young Norwegian man with absolutely no life experience of anything, but has been banished to Mure to get a job.We also get a few catch ups with Saif’s story which again intrigued me, and I do wish we could spend more time with himAnd everyone’s spoilt and outspoken 5 year old, Agot is back, not happy about Douglas’ existence within the family, and generally demanding all manner of things.I really enjoyed both getting to know the new characters, the disastrous early services in the restaurant, as well as catching up with all the regulars from previous books. It felt like I had returned to my home away from home as I am that absorbed with the lives of the Mure inhabitants.This was everything I wanted and expected from a Jenny Colgan book, and as a result it was the perfect sort of a read for me. I am already eager to return to Mure to see what everyone is getting up to now.
Bluebell Hill –
Lovely. Highly recommend
If you’re looking for sweet, chatty, uplifting and absorbing reads you can’t go wrong with Jenny Colgan. (As I’ve said about pretty much every book she’s written).Lovely to go back to Mure and dive into this tiny Scottish island that is closer to Norway than the British coast. The settings make you want to move there (she even makes the tap water sound amazing) and the descriptions of baking and food have ruined my attempts to stick to my diet, goddammit!If you’ve read the series, in this book the Rock Hotel is on the verge of opening. Great to see more of Flore, Innes, Lorna, Fintan, and (sigh) the lovely Syrian Doctor Saif. I completely fell in love with Gaspard, the new French chef and the Norwegian Konstantin, and I am very sad that the Rock Hotel doesn’t actually exist. (Not that I could afford it if it did.) Thank you, Jenny Colgan. More, please!
Jen –
Return to lovely Mure
Jenny Colgan’s Mure series is my favourite cosy book series. Christmas at the Island Hotel is the fourth instalment, set on the remote Scottish Island. You don’t need to read the earlier three books to enjoy this book, but it would help you to enjoy the development of the relationships between the characters.I must admit to being a bit concerned initially, when the book seemed to focus very heavily on two rather quirky new characters, Gaspard and Konstantin. To call these new characters eccentric would be an understatement.Thankfully, the story quickly settled into the usual familiar rhythm of island life, centring around the three generations of MacKenzie family, and the luxury hotel, The Rock.I always enjoy catching up with Flora and Joel, and especially Lorna and Saif. Agot, as ever, provides so much light entertainment, I can almost see her furrowed, often furious brow. Her open disdain for the new addition “Buglish” is understandable and endearing.If you are looking for a cosy read, which will make you smile. The residents of this gentle, close knit rural Scottish community, will provide you with some lovely escapism.4* from me.
diana gallagher –
Lovely characters
Jenny books are so different and very heartwarming with lovely characters I highly recommend them especially at Christmas time ,which she has written a lot of .
JOYH –
A Good Read
I love the Mure series of books and this one is great. I can recommend it.
Kindle Customer –
Sheer joy
Started reading thinking here we go another Romcom Christmas story but once started couldn’t put it down. A sheer delight of people coping with life’s surprises. Love it and will,read again .
Tesni Pooch –
Oh good, a sequel to a book I enjoyed
I remembered reading The Summer Seaside Kitchen and really enjoying it a few years ago so when I saw there were more books in the series I eagerly snapped them up.This book is an easy read, the setting of the fictional island of Mure is captivating. BUT Jenny Colgan has changed the back stories of several main characters which I find really frustrating. Why Jenny, why? It’s almost as if she hasn’t taken the time to read back through her notes. Very bizarre.I bought the book second hand and the seller did not disappoint. Good condition and speedy delivery.
Claire Collerson –
Easy lighthearted read
Easy lighthearted read For Christmas!
jasemine –
Die Story war ganz nett, was mich aber massiv gestört hat, war, dass die Autorin sich offenbar nicht mehr an die Namen ihrer Charaktere erinnern konnte. So hieß “Jan” , Frau von Charlie, in diesem Buch “Pam”, Joel hieß bisher “Binder” mit Nachnahmen und nun plötzlich “Booker” und andere Kleinigkeiten… macht den Eindruck, dass das Buch schnell geschrieben wurde, um das derzeitige Interesse an der Serie auszuschöpfen…Schade
P. Deasy –
I’ve found another favourite author – I’ll read all her books and hope some day to meet her. Thank you, Jenny!
BernaK –
All’s well that ends well. Cute idea for the story . likeable characters. Must mention very annoying editing error. Character named Jan in previous books in series suddenly became Pam! ?? Also, previous books stated no dolphins there but here they were! Details do matter. Really 4.5 stars.
imawo –
This entire series reads like Jenny Colgan writes by rolling the dice on the story: Flora single-handedly rescues stranded whales, there’s an an absurdly rich billionaire , the Syrian war, and throw some European royalty in the mix too, because why not.Stories and names of characters get mixed up and changed and at times the writing is really sloppy (like why did Jans name change to Pam, and why did Joel get a new last name and if you did have to change his name why wouldn’t he have taken on his new adoptive parents last name which would have been sweet), the characters are developed quite poorly, there isn’t much depth except for the character of saif which drags on and on. It gets exhausting how Flora is meant to be this competent manager girl yet she acts really immature and frankly annoying.Foreign cultures are portrayed terribly cliched to a caricature and it’s quite frankly done in pretty poor taste.It seems like the writer pays no attention to coherence of the series and the editor’s asleep on the job.I read this against my better judgement after the last books because Mure is cute and the story of Fintan and Colton was surprisingly well written in comparison and I’m a sucker for feel-good scenic holiday books, but I’m done with Jenny Colgan.
Lee –
I really enjoyed the storyline. A sweet Christmas story. The characters are so easy to like. Just found a new author to read.