One Winter Morning: Warm your heart this winter with this uplifting and emotional family drama

Name: One Winter Morning: Warm your heart this winter with this uplifting and emotional family drama
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Isabelle Broom

Aug 2019 · Penguin UK

2 reviews

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Cosy up with this wonderfully heart-warming and uplifting story of family and the power of love this winter

'You'll be swept away by this emotional story of love, both lost and found' Sunday Mirror

'Like listening to a story around a camp fire with a blanket wrapped around your shoulders' 5***** Reader Review

'Truly left my heart full to the brim of love and warmth' 5***** Reader Review

A heart-warming, moving and life-affirming story perfect for fans of Hannah Beckerman, Lucy Diamond and Paige Toon.
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Genie isn't feeling very festive this December.

The frosty mornings and twinkling fairy lights only remind her it's been a whole year since she lost her adoptive mother, who took her in as a baby and raised her as her own.

She's never felt more alone - until she discovers her birth mother's identity.

And where to find her - New Zealand, half the world away.

Travelling there could be her one chance to meet the woman who gave her up . . .

But will she find the answers she has been looking for? Or something she could never have expected?
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'A beautiful tender story of love and family in an incredible setting' Philippa Ashley

'Brimming with emotion the whole way through. I adored being transported far away . . . a pure delight' 5***** Reader Review

'By turns heartbreaking and joyous' Heat

'Literally gave me tingles it was so beautiful' 5***** Reader Review

'A breathtaking journey from loss to love and finding your happy place in the world - I adored every word' Cathy Bramley

'You'll be swept away by this emotional story of love, both lost and found' Sunday Mirror

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Cosy up with this wonderfully heart-warming and uplifting story of family and the power of love this winter 'You'll be swept away by this emotional story of love, both lost and found' Sunday Mirror 'Like listening to a story around a camp fire with a blanket wrapped around your shoulders' 5*****...

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2 reviews

Claire McPartlin

October 17, 2019

This was a lovely book set mostly in New Zealand, which starts off quite sad but gets happier and more uplifting as the book goes on. Evangeline (Genie) was adopted as a baby and recently lost her Mum to an accident that she feels responsible for, even though it isn't her fault. She just can't seem to drag herself out of the depression she slides into, until she decides to try and find her birth Mother and find out why she was adopted. I did feel sorry for her poor old Dad at first as he had lost his wife too but kind of got shut out by Genie in her grief. Once she realises where her birth Mother, Bonnie, is she sets off on a journey to New Zealand, with her Dad's encouragement, to find her - not realising by some quirk of fate that Bonnie is also on a journey to see Genie in the UK and so they initially miss one another. Once in New Zealand Genie decides to stay longer than at first anticipated because of this, but it works out well as she gets to know some of Bonnie's friends and family, but without saying exactly who she is. Whilst there she also visits places around New Zealand which was lovely to read about. The story is told from both Genie and Bonnie's perspectives and we go back in time to the story of why Genie was adopted in the first place which made for very easy reading chapters. A really lovely feeling book with some very likeable characters (Tui and Kit especially). I do enjoy Isabelle Broom's writing style, just a really enjoyable book.

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About the author

Isabelle Broom was born in Cambridge nine days before the 1980s began and studied Media Arts in London before joining the ranks at Heat magazine, where she remains the Book Reviews editor. Always happiest when she is off on an adventure, Isabelle now travels all over the world seeking out settings for her novels, as well as making the annual pilgrimage to her true home - the Greek island of Zakynthos. Currently based in Suffolk, where she shares a cottage with her dog Max and approximately 467 spiders, Isabelle fits her writing around a busy freelance career and tries her best not to be crushed to oblivion under her ever-growing pile of to-be-read books.

Isabelle Broom was born in Cambridge nine days before the 1980s began and studied Media Arts in London before joining the ranks at Heat magazine, where she remains the Book Reviews editor. Always happiest when she is off on an adventure, Isabelle now travels all over the world seeking out setting...

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