Christmas on the Coast

Name: Christmas on the Coast
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Rebecca Boxall
ISBN: 9781543638738

Author: Rebecca Boxall

Narrator: Susan Duerden

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 11/21/2017

Categories: Fiction, Romance, Women, Family Life

Synopsis

Can the secrets of the past be forgiven this Christmas?Christmas is approaching on the island of Jersey, but Libby is feeling far from festive. Her police work and duties as vicar’s wife weigh heavily on her, she’s anxious about her troubled children, and now her best friend, Stella, has suddenly turned against her, citing a mysterious family grudge.Libby is devastated by Stella’s unexpected coldness. But then her father shows her a diary written by her great-aunt Queenie, which sheds light on a long-hidden secret—one rooted in love, loyalty and betrayal. Writing during the Nazi occupation of Jersey in the winter of 1941, Queenie reveals a community torn apart by illicit romance, heartbreak and revenge—and by dark acts of fear and desperation.The more Libby immerses herself in Queenie’s journal, the more she understands why its secrets still haunt her family and Stella’s. Christmas is a time of forgiveness, but is the treachery of their shared past too shameful to be forgotten?

About Rebecca Boxall

Rebecca Boxall was born in 1977 in East Sussex, where she grew up in a bustling vicarage always filled with family, friends and parishioners. She now lives by the sea in Jersey with her husband and two children. She read English at the University of Warwick before training as a lawyer, and also studied Creative Writing with The Writer’s Bureau. Christmas on the Coast is her third novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cyndi on December 05, 2017

A pretty good Christmas book. I probably would have enjoyed it better had I not read The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. But, my one sticking problem in the story was the best friend who suddenly dumps her lifelong friend because of something that happened years before she was born.......more

Goodreads review by Lee at ReadWriteWish on November 24, 2017

Two Christmas stories are told in alternate chapters in this novel. Both are set in Jersey, one in 2016 and the other in 1942. I have a real fascination of the Channel Islands and their German occupation in WW2. Therefore, I thought this book had real promise. It turned out to be an unfulfilled prom......more

Goodreads review by MRS CHRISTINE SITTON on December 09, 2018

Fascinating Loved the way the story slipped between the war years with the journal and the present. Sad at times but so interesting. Loved the ending. A real feel good for Christmas. Know the journal was fiction but having been to Jersey and read about the occupation it rang true......more

Goodreads review by Peggy on October 19, 2017

Family, friends, love and duty all combine to bring a wonderful story. Christmas is the vehicle but the story is so much more. I loved it......more