Christmas at the Little Cornish Gift Shop
Rachel Griffiths
Rating: 5 stars
Following a series of disastrous dates and losing her job as a room attendant at a top London hotel, Ruby Penrose heads home to Cornwall. Her dreams of making it as a screenwriter failed and she has no idea what to do next.
Reality TV star Jake Woodhouse was delighted to find a small, isolated Cornish cottage to rent for the holidays. He aims to spend his days there in peace and quiet, licking his wounds - his only company his faithful, but stubborn, British bulldog, Sherlock Bones.
But as Ruby and Jake are drawn together by the magic of the festive season and the Little Cornish Gift Shop, they both begin to realise that sometimes it is possible to learn to trust again, and that friendship can be the most valuable Christmas gift of all.
This is the first of three short stories in The Little Cornish Gift Shop series.
Look out for Spring at The Little Cornish Gift Shop coming in 2019.
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Rachel Griffiths has done it again! This was a delightful and festive heartwarming story and I loved every page. If you wasn't in the festive mood before you saw the cover, then you certainly would be once you saw this one! I love the falling snow, the cutest little cottage with the wreath on the door, the Christmas lights and of course the two cutest little doggies at the front of the cover! It's delightful and if you ask me, it's everything you want in a cover.
Onto the story itself, it starts with Ruby working in London and being set up for cleaning 'accidents' that she didn't do. However, being the caring person that she is, she took the blame for a heavily pregnant single mum and got fired in the process. So not the best end to the year for Ruby, but having said that, this was just what she needed. She desperately wanted to get home to see her nanna and spend Christmas with her loved ones.
What I love about this novel is that we also get to see everything from a male perspective as well. We get to read about Jake and what's going through his past relationships and his urgent need to get away from London. He was a great character with hidden depth and I could just feel that connection between Ruby and Jake straight away. I loved reading about their growing relationship and I was sad when I came to the end of the novella!
I absolutely loved where this was set, the location sounded idyllic on a winters day and it desperately made me want to move or visit somewhere similar! It was so Christmassy and festive that I devoured this book in such a short time and I'm so looking forward to reading the rest in the series. Thank you to Rachel Griffiths for a chance to read this novel, which I have reviewed honestly.
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