Book Review - Driving Home For Christmas by Joanna Bolouri

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Title: Driving Home For Christmas

Author: Joanna Bolouri

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Quercus

Publication Date: 1st October 2022

Rating: 4 Stars

THREE CHRISTMASES. TWO BROKEN HEARTS. ONE HELL OF A JOURNEY.

'Festive, feel-good and funny, a proper Christmas cracker of a read' LAURA KEMP

Driving home marks the start of the holidays for Kate and Ed, who have made this journey every Christmas of their ten-year long relationship. Normally the seasonal hits blare from the car stereo, and they are guaranteed to be wearing ridiculous jumpers in anticipation, but this year a frosty silence fills the car...

A massive argument leads to the immediate collapse of their relationship. But the show must go on, so they decide to brave their families together one last time.

With three Christmases to celebrate, an old flame waiting under the mistletoe and a shed load of expectation around their future together, this most wonderful time of year is anything but. There will be turkey, tiffs and tantrums galore, but it's sure to be a Christmas they'll never forget.

I thoroughly enjoyed Kate and Eds story, of them rediscovering who they are and what they want from life.

Featuring Christmas where they have just agreed to break up but can't bring themselves to tell either family, they spend a few days trying to pretend everything is OK.

With various degrees of success. We get to meet both families and I especially loved Kates. 

There is a lot of bickering between our "couple" which I found quite amusing as was never completely sure what direction the story might take. 

I also enjoyed the flashback chapters to the early stages of their relationship, and seeing just how that moulded them.

This was a lovely quick and easy read, which certainly had me smiling as I read it. 

Thank you to Quercus and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily