The Christmas Escape

By: Sarah Morgan

Narrated by: Rose Robinson

“A journey of love and festive cheer.” (Woman's World)

“Morgan’s latest Christmas tale will delight readers and give them the perfect excuse to snuggle up for a few hours with a cup of hot cocoa.” (Booklist)

An uplifting novel of friendship, the festive season, and risking everything for the biggest gift of all...

It was supposed to be Christy Sullivan’s perfect Christmas escape - a dream trip to Lapland with her family and best friend, Alix. But facing a make-or-break marriage crisis, Christy desperately needs time alone with her husband, Seb. Her solution? Alix, along with Seb’s oldest friend, Zac, can take Christy’s daughter on the planned Lapland trip, and they will all reunite there for Christmas Day. After all, what are friends for?

There’s nothing Alix won’t do for Christy, but Christy’s plan to save Christmas is testing their friendship. Especially as Alix and Zac have a difficult history of their own.

As long-held secrets unravel and unexpected romance shines under the Northern Lights, can Christy and Alix find the courage to fight for the relationships they really want? And could this Christmas escape save the precious gift of each other’s friendship?

©2021 Sarah Morgan (P)2021 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

This book encompasses a Christmas story, a love story, and a story of family.

I really enjoyed how the author developed a love story around two couples. Plus brought a family together after many years of being estranged.
The book was very interesting, educational plus very entertaining. It’s a feel good Christmas book.

Loved!

The story was darling and narrator did a beautiful job helping differentiate characters. Highly recommend!

Thoroughly enjoyed this holiday story

Narrator did a wonderful job with all the various characters. Particularly Holly’s voice. Perfectly precocious. Lots of character development and change.
Good base story. This is my second book by this author. I’m a fan!

Loved every minute of this heartwarming story!

Christy has the life she dreamed of: married with a child living in a charming cottage in the English Countryside, but somehow things aren’t right. Her husband, Seb, has been spending more and more time away on business, and the cottage she found delightful is falling apart around her. Christy was raised in to embrace order and schedules, never feeling comfortable to rock the boat or confront problems and that’s worked for her until now. Christy knows she needs to face facts and find out if her marriage is in trouble and maybe life in the country isn’t all she thought it would be. However, she doesn’t feel comfortable discussing her doubts with her best friend, Alix, since she was against marrying Christy marrying Seb in the first place. Christy hopes their upcoming trip her estranged Aunt Robyn’s Swedish retreat will provide some downtime to get everything sorted out.

Alix was raised by career minded parents, careless and neglectful, so that she never felt loved by them. She didn’t know what it felt to be in a loving family until she met Christy and was taken in as a sister and daughter. Alix loves Christy and wants the best for her which is why she spoke up at the wedding, and even though Christy says all is forgiven, things haven’t quite been the same since. However, their lifelong dream of spending Christmas at Lapland should allow them to mend fences. Nevermind Seb’s best friend Zac, Alix’s nemesis being thrown into the mix!

The Christmas Escape was magical! The descriptions, even of the rundown country cottage sounded so lovely! Spending Christmas in the Swedish retreat north of the Artic Circle where the Northern Lights sweep by regularly, ensconced in rustic cabins that invite nature in with large windows and natural materials throughout sounded dreamy!

As enchanting and perfect as the setting sounded, the story of Christy, Alix and Robyn was the main attraction for me. Each of these women had their own struggles, Christy and Alix were more at the forefront, but Robyn’s story was just as poignant and touching. There’s romance and laughs, the joy of reaffirming love, coming to grips with the past, grabbing up happiness for the future and holding family and friends close. I loved every minute of this emotional and heartwarming story! Five stars all the way!

Rose Robinson's performance was perfection!

Wonderful holiday story

I enjoyed this book very much. The narrator was very skilled, she made you forget you were listening to just one person.

loved this book

Very entertaing with gtreat portrayals of working out relationship challenges. And it was a perfect example of an author making one feel as if u r there with them.

great book so many questions

Loved it so much the ending was beautiful and did Alex and Zach get married and have kids did holly have a sister or brother did robin have kids with Eric

This was really heartwarming

I like that it was told from 3 different perspectives and we got to delve into real feeling instead of guessing at feelings. I also like that this story shed light on real everyday problems and still ended in a HFN scenario. A real "feel good" story.

4 stars

7 Chapters...MORE than enough!

Okay! I give! I'm seven chapters in and I can't stand anymore of the various characters' angst, second-guessing, dysfunctional slogging, miscommunication, sick, circular speculation, mental and conversational sniping, chain-of-dysfunctional thoughts..."Christmas Escape"?? The only "escape" needed is from this circular misery.

Had hoped for an interesting, unusual setting of Lapland...but, these sorry characters can't even seem to get on the plane! GO, already! But, I no longer care if they every make the trip -- I'm gone!

Bought on the latest Audible sale, so pretty sure, can't return, per Audible's latest policies re. such. Moving on.

Just not very good

Just not particularly well written, the plot line of Alix makes it seem like something super dramatic happened when in reality it's not a big deal at all, tried really hard to finish it but couldn't