A chance to return to the Holly sisters and the northern vicarage setting. It is good get an insight into characters who only played a minor role in the previous books, and see situations from a new point of view.

I love all thing British and this book hit the spot. I was given A Vicarage Homecoming by Kate Hewitt in exchange for an honest review by NetGalley.

What a fabulous book Miriam is back from travelling the world but she has a surprise, she is pregnant.

Moving back to her Dad's old parish whilst no father is in sight Miriam really feels the guilt and the shame, but she is determined to take control of her life and secures two part time jobs and manages to find herself somewhere to stay, although not everyone is so sure about this one as she is living in the annexe of her sisters ex fiance.

As her due date draws nearer Miriam is holding on with her fingernails, can she really do this.

I loved this book return to the Holley sisters, I really wish there were more sisters so we could have more wonderful stories.

The characters were very well written and you really understand the difficulties each person is going through. Possibly my favourite book of the series. I read it in under a day, I just couldn't put it down.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book in return for an honest review.

Loved, Loved this book.

A Vicarage Homecoming was such a great fun reading romance. Great characters made this a fun read. Can’t wait to read more by this author.

Synopsis:
Can she find happiness and love in the place she once only wanted to leave? As the youngest Holley sister, Miriam has always been a bit of a rebel. After spending several years backpacking through Europe and Australia, she’s now back home… unemployed and pregnant, with no boyfriend or husband in sight. At first, Miriam only wants to hide away from the shocked and prying eyes of her father’s parishioners, but her sisters won’t let her. Determined to help her find her way, they urge Miriam to accept a job working as an assistant to Simon, the new vicar… and to think about what will happen when the baby comes. As Miriam starts putting down roots, she finds an unexpected friendship in her sister Rachel’s ex-fiancé, Dan Taylor. And as she thinks about her future, she finds hope and healing in the most unexpected places. But when the past rushes up to meet both her and Dan, can Miriam stay the course?

Great to be back with the vicarage family for Miriam's story, a great series well worth reading as are all Kate Hewitt's books

This was cute and sweet and just the right amount of trash to enjoy with a cake and a cup of tea. I liked reading this, although I didn't always find myself being able to connect with the characters. I still found it light and enjoyable.

I really enjoyed this book! A great story line that kept me hooked and excellent main characters. I would highly recommend this book.

This book is the 4th book in the series as we follow Miriam Holley. As with the previous books in this series it is well written and enjoyable. I am a big fan of Kate Hewitt. Although can be read as a stand alone, I suggest reading in order.

Miriam is the youngest of the Holley sisters and she has always felt like the black sheep of the family. Spending the last four years travelling around the world, she has now turned up at her home village pregnant by a man whom she knows nothing about.

Thinking she would be, again, treated by the village as an outcast. Nothing could be further from the truth. With nowhere to live she is provided a home by her sisters ex fiancé Dan. But just when Miriam is starting to admit she has feelings for Dan, Rory, the father of her baby shows up.

Miriam is about to have to make some very hard decisions regarding her pregnancy and her relationships. Forcing her to grow up and step out of the box she has created for herself.

This was the fourth book in a series about the sisters. I have not read any of the others. But didn’t feel I was missing any part of the story (I am now looking forward to reading the other 3 books). I love a village romance and this had me instantly captured.

I loved it. I wish there was more to come. This is the 4th book and just as enjoyable and very easy to read as the previous ones. Perfect book for summer & long winter nights.

A vicarage homecoming was another great book by Kate Hewitt and it drew the previous three books in this series to a conclusion. A fab, lovely book that I enjoyed from the first to the last word. Fingers crossed for another instalment.

Lovely feel good story. It was well written and flowed well. Easy to read and hard to put down. Perfect on these summer nights

This is the fourth book in the series and it didn’t disappoint
Each book follows a different character in the book.
This is an easy read and is very well written
A great book

I'm a great fan of Kate Hewitt and this book is no exception.
A Vicarage Homecoming is a real treat to read and a great addition to the other books in this series.

I throughly enjoyed this well written romance. Good plot and well developed characters. I recommend to fans of romance. My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my digital arc. This is my unbiased review.

Thank you Netgalley and the Publisher. I loved everything about this book, it was filled with love and laughter.

A Vicarage Homecoming is the fourth book in Kate Hewitt’s Holley Sisters of Thornthwaite series. Each book tells the story of one of four daughters to Thornthwaite’s vicar and wife. By book four, the vicar, Roger, and his wife, Ruth, are on mission in China, and three of the four sisters are attached and happy. Then there’s number four, Miriam Holley, 23 and pregnant after one careless night with a stranger while she was on her travels ’round the globe. We meet Miriam, five months along and miserable. She’s considering giving the baby up for adoption, pondering how her life lacks viable work and purpose, and feeling like she’s let her family, church family, and herself down: how hard will it be to make sure she doesn’t drag this baby along in her desultory wake? As it turns out, harder than she thought.

Hewitt’s Vicarage Homecoming is not a romance, thought there’s a romantic interest in it. It’s very much the story of Miriam’s growth and awakening to the possibilities of family, friendship, and motherhood. The first half of the novel sees Miriam spend time working for the new vicar, her sister Anna’s fiancé, Simon Truesdell. At first, I thought he was the love interest, but no. Then, she runs into her sister Rachel’s former fiancé, Dan Taylor, and he offers her a place to stay, the annexe he’s renting, in exchange for answering the phone at his veterinary clinic and dealing with his chaotic paperwork.

Ah, I thought, here’s the love interest! But your sister’s ex-fiancé, there’s a “ew” factor there, except Miriam acknowledges it with the same expressive elegance. Working alongside Dan and having her own place bring Miriam to certain realizations: that she has a modicum of competence at caring at least for herself and that living alone, though she sowed her oats in hostels all over the world, is lonely. Miriam, despite being surrounded by well-meaning, loving family, friends, and neighbours, both craves company and avoids it. She wants to assert her independence, but she mistakes it for going it solo. One of the most important realizations Miriam has is that connection is vital to living a full life. At first, we learn about how she is conflicted about the baby. Another crucial scene to Miriam’s development is her visit to the hospital ultrasound and then adoption agency. The baby’s reality takes form and supersedes her own navel-gazing.

I thought Miriam lacked maturity and insight and she had many an unnecessarily querulous moment when all anyone was trying to do was help. But she grew on me and she grew, that is, she matured, had some maturity-enhancing realizations. Miriam realized that her reluctance to give her baby to adoptive parents had more to do with her lack of self-worth and belief in her ability to be a mother than a mature decision that didn’t involve bringing up a child. I never thought Hewitt was condemning, censuring, or denying any woman’s right to make this decision, but she showed, through her character’s growth, why this was the right decision for Miriam. With a little help from her friends and family. Maybe I should say “friend”, as Dan’s support and friendship were sustaining to Miriam. There were also great scenes with her sisters and lovely ones with her parents when they returned from China for Anna and Simon’s wedding and Miriam’s labour. The labour, btw, when it happens, is another terrific scene, funny, realistic, lacking in dignity and totally heart-warming and fitting.

With the novel’s focus being Miriam and her coming-of-age as an adult, the romance was etiolated. As a matter of fact, though Dan was in the “running” as hero, another character made an appearance and again I thought Miriam’s love-possibilities were about to take another turn. The cementing of the relationship with Miriam’s hero was late in the novel and comprised, at best, one nice, but hasty scene. About half way through the novel, however, I gave up on it as a romance and very much enjoyed Miriam’s story with her baby, the older sister shenanigans, Anna and Simon’s wedding, and the nicely-drawn village life. As long as you’re willing to do the same, you’ll very much enjoy this. With Miss Austen, we say Hewitt’s A Vicarage Homecoming offers “real comfort,” Emma.

Kate Hewitt’s A Vicarage Homecoming is published by Tule Publishing. It was released on May 28 and may be found at your preferred vendor. I received an e-ARC from Tule Publishing via Netgalley.

A light, engaging, sweet read. A perfect beach read!

Many thanks to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

A Vicarage Homecoming is a light and engaging read, fit for summer. One gets drawn into the family and one can see Miriam's development from self-pity to "I can do this".

A nice easy reading novel full of warmth and charm Lovely setting great characters and lovely location It makes you feel like you are part of the family as it draws you into the lives of these 4 sisters and their extended family a real treat for a cosy night in perfect