One Winter’s Night – Kate Frost

To look to the future, you first have to face your past… With Christmas just around the corner, Molly Bliss has almost hit rock bottom. After the heart-breaking loss of her parents, an escape to Iceland to spend the holidays with her sister Claudia is a chance for her to find solace and focus on her neglected relationship with her boyfriend Howard. But when Howard 'misses his flight', Molly is forced to rethink her whole outlook on life. Surrounded by her family, Molly has never felt more alone. With ongoing family tensions rumbling and a surprising connection with old flame Leifur and his friend James, Molly realises she has an opportunity to rediscover who she really is. While exploring the wild beauty of Iceland, a fragile hope seeds itself in Molly and alongside the life-affirming experiences and new friendships that are forged, she’s forced to question why she ever put her own dreams on hold. Will Molly allow grief and disappointment to destroy her chance at happiness, or can new love sparkle as the land of fire and ice begins to work its magic?

This book contains:

Death of loved ones
Cheating spouse
Divorce
Vehicular accident (nothing more than a hurt ankle, not at all life threatening).

Molly Bliss works in HR, has managed the process of her deceased parents’ estate mostly alone, and her boyfriend who she was hoping to reconnect with over Christmas misses his flight.

She’s already demonstrated her resilience, fortitude, and dedication before even getting to Iceland, but once there discovers that she needs to let in the emotional side as well. With the help of her sister, her sister’s family, and the other guests, she learns to open up, process her emotions and let others in.

Molly heads to Iceland for Christmas full of hope of renewing her relationship with Howard while in the magical winter landscape of Iceland. But Howard misses his flight and delivers some news that Molly wasn’t expecting, making her trip to Iceland a whole new adventure.

Instead of renewing her relationship with Howard, she spends time renewing her relationship with herself, her sister and her sister’s family.

I’ve enjoyed every book I’ve read set in Iceland. I don’t know what it is about that country and what the authors can evoke, but it’s always powerful and magical.

Kate has kept that feeling alive for me and really given us a taste of Iceland over the Christmas and New Year period.

While Molly was entirely relatable, we were also able to see how she reflected and really understood what she wanted from her life to figure out how she could get it. She had the perfect mix of personalities around her to enable her to grow emotionally, which really emphasizes the need for that to be there for ANYONE to grow.

While this is at it’s core a romance novel, it very much felt like a Chick Lit as the focus to me felt like it was on Molly and her learning to love herself and chase her dreams.

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Author Bio

Kate Frost is the author of several bestselling romantic escape novels including The Greek Heart, and The Love Island Bookshop. She lives in Bristol and is the Director of Storytale Festival, a book festival for children and teens she co-founded in 2019.