Wonderfully festive and totally engaging. I loved every page. A beautifully written novel about 3 sisters who seem completely different but nearer the end of the book realise that they aren't so different after all. They all come together just in time for Christmas and it was a perfect ending.

A lovely lovely story and being set in the Highlands of Scotland it is very close to my heart.

This is the perfect book to read under a blackets with a nice cup of tea and some shortbread. The story flows nicely and well written. The charaters are interesting. A really good family festive read.

Thank you Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

What a delightful story! it feels very real, all the characters perfectly drawn and described. You laugh and cry, and panic, alongside them. The storyline begins with Suzanne trapped in a nightmare, the same dream she has suffered for twenty five years.. Her husband Stewart wakes her up, and comforts her. He suggests that it was the phone call from Hannah that maybe sparked the dream, she hadn't had the nightmare for more than a year. But it is close to Christmas, and she is looking forward to the whole family being together. She wants everything to be perfect.

Suzanne and Stewart have three daughters. Hannah, the oldest, and Beth, the middle daughter, live in New York, in Manhattan, and Posy the youngest, lives in the Highlands of Scotland, close to her parents. Hannah is a high-flyer in the business world, with a very well paid executive job, but apparently no social life, she is quite a prickly character,very reserved, and even when she does come home for Christmas she tends to cut herself off from her family. Beth is married to Jason. She is a stay-at-home mum to Melly and Ruby, Jason has the high paid job that allows her that luxury. But to Beth it is not a luxury, she feels overwhelmed by trying to keep everything perfect, by having no adult company to talk to day in-day out, and Jason working long hours. She gets a phone call inviting her to come for a job interview, and she sees it as a lifeline. Posy, back in Scotland, works with her mother in the cafe, she looks after a whole host of animals, works in the Search and Rescue team, and looks after a converted barn that the family rent out. She lives in the upstairs apartment, and Luke, an author and mountain climber has rented the apartment for several months while he completes a book. Posy really wants to travel, and see the world, but doesn't want to upset her parents. She likes Luke very much.

Back in Manhattan two seemingly perfect lives are beginning to unravel. Beth has a terrible row with Jason and walks out, leaving him to take care of the girls. Hannah feels overwhelmed by events in her life. Both of them run away, back home to Scotland. The family suffered a terrible catastrophe when the girl's were very young, but they have never spoken about it. But with all the anxiety this is the year to bring it out in the open. When the sisters really talk they find things out about each other that they had never realised. The issues that overwhelmed in Manhattan get solved in a lovely, and realistic way, and Posy is at last able to tell her mother that she does not really want to take over the cafe, and live in the village for ever.

It is a heartwarming story, with delightful little touches that make it feel very real. The two children are wonderfully written, their little comments absolutely spot-on, and their actions just perfect. When mum leaves all her make-up on the table, and the girls are left to their own devices - they do just what you would expect, and the results are very, very funny! A perfect Christmas story, well worth reading.

I loved everything about this book, the characters, the snowy setting and the way Sarah Morgan wove the scenery and mountains into the book. There are three sisters who lost their parents in an accident when they were young. Their mother's friend and her husband bring up the girls as their own moving them from America to the highlands of Scotkand. The girls never talk to each other about the memories they have of the day their parents died until a couple of problems in their personal lives see them going back to the highlands for a family Chrostmas. Suzanne is the person who took them in and who all, except the eldest Hannah, call mother. She has her own nightmares about that day. It's a beautiful story about family life, love and learning to live with the past. Weave in a little romance, a lot of laughs and sisterly competition and you have the perfect Christmas book to curl up by the fire and enjoy.

I went through every emotion possible with this book, it's a great read with a fab Christmassy feel. Scotland is the perfect setting for the story. Grab a cuppa and curl up and enjoy!

Sarah has written a heartwarming book about how siblings and their families function. Just as many real-life families experience tensions, so do they.

It's Christmas in the McBride household and the sisters come together again.

Emotions run high and each member of the family find their own way of dealing with them which in turn allows them to be able to move on in life.
Sarah has found a way of weaving crises, secrets, loved homeliness and the magic of the Christmas season together.

I loved this book, it was easy reading right from page 1 and I would highly recommend anyone to read it.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I found the characters interesting and the overiding subject of mountain climbing was a nice twist which made it even more enjoyable.

I would say the title doesnt really reflect the story for me and perhaps this book could be bypassed by people chosing as its not your average chic lit that the cover implies it is (in my opinion)

I would definitely read for this author again.

4.5*

I'm not going to lie - when I heard that Sarah Morgan was branching into "Women's Fiction" (ugh whoever thought of the name of this genre should be shot) and away from contemporary romance I was really disappointed as I love her romance novels. However, the description of this one centred around three sisters reuniting for the festive season intrigued me enough to give this genre a try and I am pleased to say I greatly enjoyed <i>The Christmas Sisters</i>.

The four things that made it so good:

1. Sarah Morgan's wonderful immersive style of writing is still ever present along with the humour. The scene with the three sisters in the car near the end (you'll know which scene I mean when you hit it) had me chuckling out loud.
2. It's Christmas in the Highlands with lots of snow and the blending of American and British cultures.
3. The backstory of the family and why each sister is the way they are was intriguing and held my interest
4. Whilst definitely not the focus of the book there are two cute romances. Whilst I love seeing two characters get together and fall in love and these two relationships are already in progress at the start of the book, I still loved seeing each half of the couple interact with each other.

I was disappointed when I came to the end and there was no more of the McBride sisters story to read, even though the ending was satisfyingly perfect.

A good and enjoyable read. Three sisters and their adoptive parents, all damaged by an accident twenty-five years before, come together for Christmas. Each of the sisters is going through a major happening in their life and these become the catalyst for them retracing the accident and talking about the taboo it brought.

Heartwarming Christmassy novel based in the snowy Scottish highlands.

My secret crush is The People's Friend (a Scottish story magazine that my Gran subscribed to, and which I grew up reading too!) and this reminded me at times of their big family sagas.

Likeable characters, baking, knitting and international settings add to the mix. All in all a good read for an autumn or winter's day.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read this in return for my honest review.

This is a lovely light read to settle down with under a blanket, hot chocolate & a slice of cake during the cold winter months. I enjoyed the writing style and it was easy to follow the lives of the four women who are family and still suffer from an event that occurred 25 years ago. The ending was good and Christmassy.

This is a delightful book, set in the mountains of Scotland..with much emphasis on mountains and climbing. It's a story about three sisters and their complex emotional lives. How well they are portrayed.
Their adoptive parents come to life, with their nurturing spirits, caring, coping, dealing with disappointments and sadnesses.
It's so good to see how each one of the sisters grows and develops emotionally.
The descriptions af the landscapes and the terrors found within such harsh places some across vividly.
I think the only thing I raised an eyebrow about was the fact that the three men 'belonging' to the sisters, were all just that bit too good looking, GQ, and generally perfect specimens of malehood! What about nice ordinary men?!

I have just finished this book. If I could have read quicker, this would have been finished in one sitting. I really felt as though I was in Scotland with the characters. Each person was well-written and wanted to delve inside their heads to figure out their motives and totally rooting for a happy ending.

This was a soppy book perfect for reading in front of the fire, and as encouraged by Suzanne with a slab of cake or a brownie.

Would recommend to anyone for a Christmas present

A great Christmas read about family and love. The main characters are a mum and her three daughters, set mostly in Scotland. Even though it's only September, this book made me feel all Christmassy and excited for the holidays!

I’ve read a few books by this author & this one certainly didn’t disappoint. It was the perfect mix. Absolutely loved it thanks for the preview.

Thoroughly enjoyed this advance copy which I received through NetGalley.
The Christmas Sisters tells of three very different sisters, their relationships and the background to their lives. Orphaned at an early age, and cared for by a family friend they had good childhoods but all were left with different scars.
The book tells of them coming together in Scotland, for a family Christmas. We hear of their interactions and their various coming to terms with their past. All came with different agendas and all brought baggage.
The book is a light enjoyable read, with humour and moments of sadness. I feel the book is one I can recommend. The author says the idea came to her while in Greece on holiday, I'm reading it in the sun in Turkey, which seems somehow appropriate.