I received this book from Harper Collins in exchange for an honest review.

The McBride sisters are all coming home for Christmas! This means busy stay-at-home mum Beth is going to have to juggle the kids, her husband and a strong desire to return to work over the holiday period, workaholic Hannah needs to take some time off while dealing with her own secret and youngest sister Posy starts to finally confront if she wants to stay home and run the family business or go off and find her own adventure.

I really enjoyed this Christmas family-fun/madness. Sarah Morgan is able to write Christmas time craziness really well, and she didn’t disappoint in this one. I loved getting to know each sister and the hidden layers to all of them. But my favourite character had to be the dad - Stewart - who reminded me a lot of Pride & Prejudice’s Mr Bennett. He never interjected too much or made a fuss, but he was always there in the background ready to step in for any of his girls. I’m so glad he stayed such a steady, loving character throughout.

This book felt a tad drawn-out for me near the end. I thought the last few chapters would never end and did read them very fast so I could finally put the book down and start a new one but the majority of the book was an engrossing, fast read for me in the best way.

I would have liked even more in Suzanne’s memories of the mountain and what happened that day when she took charge of the girls as kids. I feel we got a glimpse of the story but she never really went into it - how she survived, dug her way out etc. I think it would have added some good high-intensity moments for the book.

The characters do suffer a bit from bad communication which can be frustrating for a lot of readers so fair warning here. There’s definitely times you want to shake them all and tell them to cop on!