When Maggie, Simone and Star's father passes away, the estranged sisters have to come together in the town they spent every summer childhood in to say goodbye to the father they loved, but felt like they hardly knew. When Augustus's will is read, the sisters find out they have to work together to create the perfect Winter Festival for the town before they can rightfully inherit. The time together as the Christmas period settles in gives the sisters a chance to reconnect.

Another lovely Christmas novel from Jenny Bayliss. I really liked this cosy tale complete with an eccentric town that could rival Star's Hollow, sisterly friendship and strong bonds and some romance scattered throughout.

I always think Jenny Bayliss's strength is the wonderful settings she always creates in her books and Rowan Thorp reminded me a bit of Blexford from The Twelves Dates of Christmas (I would love to know if there are any Easter eggs in Bayliss' novels to suggest her books are all set in the same world). A picture perfect Cotswold type of town where everyone knows everyone and they all stand up for each other - what could be better. I did find there were a couple of too many similarities from The Twelve Dtes including the 'Cussy Crocheters' which was a little bit too similar to the Knitting Sex Kittens in a previous novel.

I loved the sister friendship in this book as well as some really honest and refreshing chats around motherhood, infertility and abortion which I appreciated. I did find Maggie and Joe's relationship slightly tedious as Maggie's concerns bordered on very repetitive due to the age gap, her obsession with the fact she was menopausing and her constant put downs about herself particularly her thighs. It might have been better if we were introduced to the relationship at the start when the chemistry was sizzling before anything happened other than right in the middle of it.

Overall, I enjoyed this one and Jenny Bayliss is a Christmas reading staple for me!