Let It Snow by Sue Moorcroft

 

From Goodreads

This Christmas, the villagers of Middledip are off on a very Swiss adventure…

Family means everything to Lily and Zinnia Cortez and, growing up in their non-conventional family unit, they and their two mums couldn’t have been closer.

So it’s a bolt out of the blue when Lily finds her father wasn’t the anonymous one-night stand she’s always believed. She is in fact the result of her mum's reckless affair with a married man.

Confused, but determined to discover her true roots, Lily sets out to find the family she’s never known – an adventure that takes her from the frosted, thatched cottages of Middledip to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland, via a Christmas market or two along the way…

My thoughts

My thanks to the Publishers via NetGalley for a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

Lily and Zinnia Cortez could be classed as sisters', yet theirs is not a traditional family, growing up in their non-conventional family, the two girls and their two mums couldn’t have been closer though.  When Lily finds out that what she had been led to believe for most of her life, was not the way she came into the world and finds out a secret that had been hidden.       

She decides to find out as much of the truth as she can, but this comes with it's own perils.  So off she goes on her journey of discovery,.  Which happens to tie in well with the Swiss trip!

This is a lovely seasonal tale and is a typical gentle story with a hint of romance thrown in that Sue Moorcroft has become well established at writing.  I enjoyed escaping to Switzerland with the handful of Middledip villagers and immersing myself in all that happened to them both at home and abroad.  

When I was in my early 20's, I was once asked 'What my family life was like?'  My reply was 'That we were just like any normal family.'  They came back at me with 'But what is a normal family?'  This question is even more poignant.