The Holiday Cottage by Sarah Morgan

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

The Holiday Cottage

Summary: USA TODAY bestselling author Sarah Morgan returns with a heartfelt story of friendship, finding yourself, and the surprising ties that bring us together.

To the outside world, Imogen is a marketing dynamo. Her colleagues don’t know that while her high-achieving professional image is real, the happy childhood stories she spins are as fake as her pretend enthusiasm for Christmas. Working 24/7 has always been her solution to surviving the festive season—until burnout leads to a catastrophic blunder.

Suddenly, Imogen is handed a holiday gift she definitely doesn’t want: enforced time off work to recuperate. Then an invitation arrives from her favorite client, Dorothy, to stay at her guest cottage in the Cotswolds. From the thatched roof to the cozy open fireplace, Holly Cottage is a picture-perfect haven… Can it provide the fresh start Imogen so desperately needs?

For Dorothy, helping Imogen offers a longed-for chance to make reparations for her own past. But as her daughter Sara keeps reminding her, it brings risks, too. Yet Dorothy knows that only a leap of courage will allow her family to grow and heal. And perhaps this Christmas, with Dorothy’s help, the new life that Imogen is slowly piecing together could be better than anything either of them could imagine…

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

I adore Sarah Morgan books. They are filled with charm and great characters.

In The Holiday Cottage, our main character, Imogen, has it all together. Her work life is perfect, her family is filled with wonderful people and achingly picture perfect Christmas memories. She even has a wonderful dog.

It’s all smoke and mirrors- and the reason she works so hard is her home life is crap.

When everything blows up, Imogen begins to find out that there is more to life than work, that things she had believed her whole life were not correct, and that she deserves the happy Christmas she’s been pretending she’s been having.

What I liked:

The cover is pure holiday perfection! I could lick this cover, it is so delicious looking.

Imogen. Goodness, that girl could have turned out to be such a terrible person, feeling sorry for herself, etc. But she pulled herself up by her bootstraps, decided how she could cope with life, and made the best of situations.

Dorothy and Sara. I loved their relationship. Loved how they supported each other, even when they disagreed about things.

Bottom line: This book is everything a holiday read should be- great characters, a setting that is picture perfect, some sweet romance, snow, and family.

*This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.*