Feel-good books to warm you during the winter evenings

“Josef The Writer’s Cat” by Ellen Khodakivska

If you have a cat, this story will fill your heart with warmth. But if you don’t, you’ll immediately want to change it.

“Josef The Writer’s Cat” is a book that any cat would dream to have written. The story is told from the perspective of Josef, the cat who’s been lucky to become a member of a writer’s family where everyone loves him.

“The Life and Love (Attempts) of Kitty Cook” by Helen Aitchison

Kitty has a perfect life. She has a job she loves and is good at. She has fantastic friends and caring, supportive parents. But then, one brick falls out of the wall of her structured and mainly satisfying life. Determined to fix it, Kitty embarks on a journey that promises adventure and excitement. Although she knows that even on a pleasure cruise you can encounter a storm, Kitty can’t imagine what awaits her.

Kitty has just broken up with her boyfriend of many years. While trying to adjust to life alone, with an empty chair at the dinner table and a similarly empty bed, Kitty decides to give online dating a try. I thoroughly enjoyed living through the challenging time of exploring the online dating maze together with Kitty. She is someone you’d love to be friends with in real life.

It’s a lovely story that left a warm feeling after I turned the last page. 

“A Consuming Love” by Kelly Miller

Walks in the fresh air, horse rides, long family dinners as opposed to our permanent rush hour and missed deadlines. A perfect book to escape from everyday stress.

I loved the new angles and twists the author gave to the original novel. Every time I reread “Pride and Prejudice”, I think “what if”, and Kelly Miller provided my imagination with what it had craved.

“To Catch a Feather” by R.A. Hutchins

The story of Kate and Cal is the quintessence of what a romantic story should be and what it should give the reader in abundance. Hope, sympathy, some tears, and, of course, happiness.

The book tells a story of two people, who had their share of grief and struggle in life, but who dare to hope beyond hope that something beautiful is possible for them too. I loved the setting – majestic, but not always friendly coast of Scotland. In my imagination, I walked the cobbled streets and rocky shores together with the characters of the book.

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