Description: One Icelandic Christmas holiday. One snowstorm. An adventure they’ll never forget!
Twenty-five years ago, Freya and her three best friends created a bucket list. The future seemed bright, full of hope . . . But now they are travelling to Iceland in memory of the friend they’ve lost, determined to fulfil her dream of seeing the Northern Lights at Christmas.
They didn’t count on an avalanche leaving them stranded! Handsome local, Petur, comes to the rescue, showing them how the community survives the hard winter. With Christmas approaching, Freya and her friends throw themselves into the festivities, decorating and cooking for the villagers using delicious local ingredients.
But will they manage to see the Northern Lights? And can Freya’s own dreams come true, this Christmas?
https://www.waterstones.com/book/keeping-a-christmas-promise/jo-thomas/9780552178679
Why We Liked it
Jo Thomas has taken us to so many places with her wonderful atmospheric writing and in Keeping A Christmas Promise we’ve travelled again, this time to Iceland.
It is such a powerful emotional novel, full of vivid descriptions of the landscape, the community and the values held by the local people.
Jo always immerses us into the community she creates with such realism often including her love of cooking authentic local dishes.
This is such a wonderful book, atmospheric, uplifting, heartwarming and one of her best! Highly Recommended!