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Title: So This Is ChristmasAuthor: Helen RolfeFormat reviewed: EbookSource: NetgalleyPublisher: Boldwood BooksPublication Date: 24th August 2025Rating: 5 Stars
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Title: So This Is Christmas
Two old friends 🫂 One last letter 💌 A life-changing trip! ✨
Care assistant Sophie loves the holidays, and nothing makes her feel more festive than helping 82-year-old resident Bea keep in touch with her old friend Greta. In their Christmas letters, the women update each other on their lives – Bea’s in the quiet residential home in London, Greta’s in the heart of Vienna and the grand Wynter Hotel.
But everything changes when Bea passes away before Sophie’s had a chance to post this year’s letter. Devastated, Sophie struggles to imagine this Christmas without her dear friend. But then Sophie finds one last note from Bea – and this time, it’s not addressed to Greta. It’s to Sophie, telling her to go to Austria.
Which is how Sophie finds herself in Vienna at Christmas, with the snow falling, and an important delivery to make… But when Sophie reaches the Wynter Hotel, there are surprises in store, and before she returns to England, her life will have changed in ways she could never have imagined…
What a beautiful book.
Filled with big hearted characters (plus Amber who I enjoyed hating). this a truly wonderful story.
And most of the book is set in Vienna, at Christmas and we are treated to the most impressive descriptions of the city, of the architecture, Christmas markets, food and more. I felt transported to Austria's capital, from the comfort of my warm sofa!
This is just a truly gorgeous story, and I absolutely adored Bea, Greta and Sophie and Walter.
Another wonderful story from an always talented author.
Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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