Book info

• Title The Christmas Swap
• Author Sandy Barker
• Year 2020
• Genre Romance

Christmas is coming and best friends Chloe, Jules, and Lucy are needing change… so swapping homes for the holidays could be the perfect present for all of them! Australian Chloe spends her Christmas in a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, England. She is totally star-struck when she discovers who lives across the road. Lucy, who has jetted off to snowy Colorado for her dream-come-true white Christmas, is taken into the fold of Jules’s loud and brash family, discovering more about herself in a few short days than she has in years. And Jules leaves the cold climes of Colorado to spend her Christmas on a beach with Chloe’s friends in Melbourne, finding that time away is just what she needed.

Thoughts

This is a fun book, based very much on the film The Holiday - referenced right at the start. Rather than two people swapping Christmasses, however, this time we have three. That did make it quite confusing when switching between them - it might have helped to have the location as part of the chapter headers rather than just the character name, because it wasn’t until very near the end that I could actually tell them apart. But still, contrived as it might be that they all find their own version of romance, I still really enjoyed it.

Rating: 4 / 5