Christmas at the Island Hotel: A novel

There is a lot going happening on the small Scottish island of Mure in Jenny Colgan’s fourth installment of the Mure series. A hotel is opening on Christmas day and it has thrown the whole town into a tizzy. Flora is balancing life as a new mom and it is not the happy, rosy picture she imagined. She busies herself with running her brother, Fintan’s new hotel. The opening is only weeks away and they are without staff or head chef for Christmas dinner.

Isla is taking care of her grumpy mum and finding her stride as the new kitchen manager for the hotel. Newcomer Konstantin is hiding a royal secret and learning what it’s like to put in a full day of hard work. His father banished him to this remote island to shed him of his playboy lifestyle. Slowly but surely Konstantin learns the value of hard work and starts to warm up to the tiny island and its strange inhabitants.

Can they all pull together for a successful Christmas dinner, or will the hotel go down as one of Britain’s worst?