Christmas by the Lighthouse

Written by Rebecca Boxall

Narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden

Happy-go-lucky journalist Summer has always managed to focus on the silver lining. But nothing in her life has prepared her for her husband Seth’s recent revelation: he wants a six-month break from their marriage.

Determined to stay positive, Summer decamps to Jersey to spend six months by the sea, where every passing week makes Seth more of a distant memory. Then she meets sweet, charming Jude, whose life seems to be on permanent hold even before he receives devastating news of his own. To both of them, their chance encounter feels like fate, and with Summer’s encouragement Jude embarks on a bucket list of experiences that seem to bond them for life.

When they’re together, the world is alive with possibilities, but as Christmas approaches, their time is running out in more ways than one. Will they return to the lives they left behind — or take a chance on an unknown future?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Release date: Sep 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781978669802

Rebecca Boxall

Rebecca Boxall was born in 1977 in East Sussex, where she grew up in a bustling vicarage always filled with family, friends and parishioners. She now lives by the sea in Jersey with her husband, children and cats. She read English at the University of Warwick before training as a lawyer, and also studied Creative Writing with The Writers Bureau. The Christmas Forest is her fourth book.

Reviews for Christmas by the Lighthouse

[bookanonjeff · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Challenged Romance. This book did an excellent job of following the standard tropes while making it seem like that might not happen - at least for someone who had never read this author before. The particular challenges this couple face could be considered insurmountable, but the author does a great job of showing the couple come together through the challenges, rather than fall apart because of them. Excellent work, and very much recommended.

[ladyofthelodge · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

“Christmas by the Lighthouse” by Rebecca Boxall has little to do with Christmas really. The story focuses on the disintegrating marriage of the main character, the illness of her lover, and their efforts to start a new life together. (I guess the idea of getting married before having a baby together is an old-fashioned idea, right? Maybe I am just showing my age here, since I think morals must be different now.) I did not really like any of the main characters. I thought they were shallow and self-centered for the most part. The way the main characters found each other was the most interesting part of the story, no spoiler here for future readers. Christian readers will probably find sufficient offensive ideas (atheism, immorality) so may want to avoid this novel altogether.I received this book from the publisher and from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The opinions expressed here are entirely my own.