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A Bramble House Christmas

This was a lovely read. A Bramble House Christmas by C.J. Carmichael.

A small town, Christmas, families, a bit of mystery... fab! And when I was searching the web, I see it has been made into a movie some years ago!! 

I liked this story from the beginning - I had it on my Kindle so I must've bought it in a fit of Christmas book excitement and never got around to reading it. I'm glad I kept it!

Chldren's book illustrator Finn wants to know why his dying father left nurse Willa $50,000. He and his siblings consider her to have swindled their father out of the money and Finn is on a mission to find out. That nurse, Willa, is on holiday at Bramble House in Marietta, Montana, for Christmas, with her son, Scout, who has recovered from cancer. She's drawn to Finn who is staying at Bramble House, too, but it seems they are both keeping secrets from each other...

Lovely story, lots of Christmas and heaps of characters (though I do get a bit lost when there are too many characters in a story as this old brain finds it hard to keep track so I don't tend to stretch the old cells.)

Highly recommended if you want a heartwarming story with of course a happy ending!



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