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A review by avalinahsbooks
The Family Holiday by Elizabeth Noble
4.0
How I read this: Free ebook copy received through NetGalley
The Family Holiday was a good story full of quite realistic characters you might even get attached to in the end (which I did!), and it had a good amount of well-rounded stories in one book. We follow family holiday, arranged by the grandfather, actually planned years ago by his wife, who is long since gone. It is Charlie’s last attempt to get all of his family together and grasp that fleeting feeling of belonging that hasn’t quite been there since he lost his wife.
Everyone else in the family seem to have their troubles too. Nick has lost his wife a year ago and is now scrambling with grief, loss and three young children. Laura is going through a divorce and is dealing with some other quite serious family stuff as well. Scott has only recently got married and his Instagram influencer wife is basically perfect – but he worries his family thinks she’s not genuine. Who knows how they’ll all do, when put together in a country house for 10 days?
The Family Holiday was marketed as “the feel-good book of this year” or something of the like, and while I did enjoy it, I wouldn’t say it was “feel good”. Yes, each family branch has their own story which was very well written and I have to say, incredibly well rounded-up in the end. But they weren’t very “feel-good” – in fact, a lot of the material left me anxious and stressed out, because there were some serious problems they were solving and there was drama involved. The story is heavily family oriented, and the characters are written well, it all makes sense – I truly did enjoy the story, but I also wanted to mention that it was quite a bit more stressful to read than I expected it to. But definitely worth a read nonetheless!
I thank the publisher for giving me a free copy of the ebook in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.
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The Family Holiday was a good story full of quite realistic characters you might even get attached to in the end (which I did!), and it had a good amount of well-rounded stories in one book. We follow family holiday, arranged by the grandfather, actually planned years ago by his wife, who is long since gone. It is Charlie’s last attempt to get all of his family together and grasp that fleeting feeling of belonging that hasn’t quite been there since he lost his wife.
Everyone else in the family seem to have their troubles too. Nick has lost his wife a year ago and is now scrambling with grief, loss and three young children. Laura is going through a divorce and is dealing with some other quite serious family stuff as well. Scott has only recently got married and his Instagram influencer wife is basically perfect – but he worries his family thinks she’s not genuine. Who knows how they’ll all do, when put together in a country house for 10 days?
The Family Holiday was marketed as “the feel-good book of this year” or something of the like, and while I did enjoy it, I wouldn’t say it was “feel good”. Yes, each family branch has their own story which was very well written and I have to say, incredibly well rounded-up in the end. But they weren’t very “feel-good” – in fact, a lot of the material left me anxious and stressed out, because there were some serious problems they were solving and there was drama involved. The story is heavily family oriented, and the characters are written well, it all makes sense – I truly did enjoy the story, but I also wanted to mention that it was quite a bit more stressful to read than I expected it to. But definitely worth a read nonetheless!
I thank the publisher for giving me a free copy of the ebook in exchange to my honest review. This has not affected my opinion.
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