A quick, entertaining read, despite featuring a wounded hero with very serious issues, “Christmas at the Lighthouse” balances between a light, humorous tone, helped by a nurturing, optimistic heroine and the Jersey Island getaway setting, and darker, more dramatic tones, due to said looming ticking clock.
Perhaps Jude’s earlier indifference felt a bit odd, but I liked watching him shake the monotony of a “beige existence” and easily fall for Summer, the right heroine, at the right place and time.
There were a lot of secondary characters strategically making the romantic couple’s life so much easier, and their HEA includes not a miracle cure but a credible treatment, even if some questions remain kindly unaddressed.

This book has it all. You can feel the sand beneath your feet as you walk on the Jersey beach. About finding yourself in life no matter what it takes. Sadness, love, and happiness and a great Christmas story. What more could you want.

Loved the character's of Summer and Jude,a light romantic novel,can they overcome disaster to find true love.

i really liked the two main characters Jude and Summer. After giving up teaching Jude finds himself in a job he doesn't enjoy and his life changes dramatically when he hands in his notice. Summer is the wife of a headmaster and is devastated when her husband wants a six month break in their marriage. She moves to Jersey and starts to enjoy the single life when an incident at the airport throws Summer and Jude together. Summer is a kind and caring person who helps Jude through a difficulty few months.

This book is beautifully written with love, sadness and new beginnings. I enjoyed it from the first page to the last. This is the first book I have read by Rebecca Boxall but I can't wait to read more.

This was such a delightful read!

This novel involves two people - Summer and Jude - who are a bit adrift after devastating news for each of them. The story is told in alternating points of view alternating from Summer to Jude and back again. I really enjoyed this detail as often these kinds of novels are only told from the heroine's POV so it was a nice change to also 'hear' the hero's POV as well.

The part that doesn't sell for me is this book as a Christmas Novel. Sure, Christmas happens during the novel but if you're looking for a sweet book with Christmas being the featured part of the story this isn't it. I know it's weird but there's times that I go on Christmas book binges so this would have slightly annoyed me had I bought it banking on it being about the Christmas season. Definitely does not take away form the novel in the least but I wanted to put this disclaimer out there just in case.

Overall this was a very quickly paced novel that while a slight bit predictable was still intriguing enough to keep me tuned in. I adore both Summer and Jude and would read further novels that involved them!

Thank you to NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK for the eARC copy of the novel in exchange for my honest review.

A perfect Christmas story, full of emotions and heartwarming.
I loved the cast of the characters, the atmosphere and the setting.
Highly recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

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Christmas by the Lighthouse by Rebecca Boxall
4/5 Stars

**I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.**

Holiday love stories are some of my favorite romance novels to read. This story did not disappoint. It was a quick read and put a new spin on Christmas in July when I was reading in the 85 degree heat in Chicago this afternoon! Loved the cover and drew me in instantly.

Summer is a journalist and seems to find the good in everything all the time. This may be the first time she can’t. Summer is devastated when her husband wants to ‘take a break’ from their marriage. So she leaves quickly to the Jersey shore for the six months he’s requested.

Summer settles into her life at the beach, enjoys herself and this life alone. Enter Jude. Jude is kind, caring, gentle and carrying his own devastating heartbreak. When they spend time together, problems melt away.

Could Summer and Jude have a future together? Can they weather another disaster together?

I absolutely love Christmas stories and this definitely satisfied my need for a Christmas romance. Highly recommend.

Summer is floored when her husband announces he wants a separation. Confused and heart broken, she flees to seaside Jersey for 6 months where she’s shocked to discover that being on her own isn’t as difficult as she thought it would be. She’s starting to enjoy herself when she meets Jude, a kind and gentle man dealing with heartbreak of his own. The two are drawn together and Summer begins to wonder if they might have a future together when disaster threatens