Thank you to the publishers for this review copy. This is a funny, heart warming book full of love and friendship. A great feel good read - just pop the kettle on and cut the cake. Happy to recommend.

I really enjoyed this little gem of a book. I’m not at all religious so the Catholic faith is a bit of a mystery to me but it isn’t just about that. This is a heart warming read, it’s about having faith, of any kind, religious or otherwise; it’s about hope and believing that if you want things, and work hard enough, good things will happen. It’s about community, and random acts of kindness, and also about just taking joy from the world about you. It didn’t take much reading, although my only criticism would be that it started a bit tentatively but that was soon forgotten, the more I read. Yes, it was very obvious in places, but that didn’t hurt. If you need a bit of a lift, on a grey day, this is the book for you. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This is a really lovely gentle heartwarming story set in the mid nineties in a very pleasant sounding community which includes a convent reduced to just three nuns. The three nuns are very different, one is not at all social and has a keen interest in history, one is very friendly and an amazing cook and the other is a reluctant superior struggling to hold both herself and the financially struggling convent together. A modest lottery win leads to publicity for the convent and leads to the nuns and some of the community experiencing some small miracles of their own. The people in this are great and it’s brilliant how the story links some seemingly unrelated locals into the overall plot. I really felt for grieving Margaret and loved the gentle story, so nice to read something so uplifting.

Maybe I wasn't in the right mood for this book as, while it was good to read a positive story, it was a bit too twee and contrived for me. The people were all likeable and one knew that even the mean ones would shine at the end. Unsurprisingly there was an awful lot of praying and cake eating and, perhaps more unexpectedly an awful lot of crying. I found the whole story around the flying nun completely unbelievable and wished the characters had been a bit more rounded. Overall it felt like there were some really good ideas for an uplifting book, but they didnt quite gel together. Thank you to netgalley and Random House for an advance copy of this book