Christmas at the Edge of the World

By: Kate Hewitt

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

When Laurel West discovers her estranged sister Abby has checked herself into rehab and wants her to take care of her 14-year-old son, she doesn’t hesitate to step in. Abby was there for Laurel a long time ago, and she longs to be able to offer the same. However, as a single woman who still dreams of the fairy tale, Laurel isn’t prepared for teenage Zac’s sullen moods or silent rage. When he’s expelled from school, she decides to take drastic measures and temporarily relocate them to her great aunt’s cottage on the windswept hills of the Orkney islands north of Scotland...about as far as she can run from their problems, but will it be far enough?

From the moment they step onto the island’s shores, everything seems to go wrong...including a run-in with eccentric sheep farmer Archie MacDougall. When Zac gets in trouble at the village pub and is rescued by Archie, Laurel thinks things are only getting worse. But Archie’s suggestion of putting Zac to work on his farm might be the change he needs, and Laurel strikes up a surprising friendship with a man who is about as far from the fairy tale as she can imagine.

Can such an unlikely and impractical love bloom in such a brief moment out of reality? And will two lost and lonely souls find each other at the edge of the world?

©2019 Kate Hewitt (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Sweet love story

I absolutely adore the ML in this, Archie is totally swoon worthy and without a doubt, a sweetheart.

Sweet

A predictable but sweet story. Exactly what was expected but surprisingly plausible, unlike most sappy Christmas romances.

Hard to listen to narrator

The narrator’s cadence was hard to listen to. It was stilted. The characters had emotions but narrative parts were strange. Hard to describe

The story was very cute. A bit slow but worth it.

The narrator was good but a bit slow and maybe too methodical. She kept pulling me to sleep but her Scottish brogue was excellent!

The story took a bit to get into, but the characters and direction were absolutely worth it. So good.

Family meets Love

Loved the story, but the narrator was very slow at reading that I had to speed the recording up a little. Also to say the narrator is very monotone. I’m sorry to have said this, because I know I wouldn’t be any good at it myself, but it’s the truth. Just giving everyone a heads up.