Saving Christmas at the Highland Repair Shop

 Saving Christmas at the Highland Repair Shop

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       August 22, 2026

 

Author  Kiley Dunbar

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 978-1836566977
Publisher:         Boldwood Books
Release Date:   22 August 2026  

   Website:   https://www.amazon.co.uk/Highland-Repair-Shop-Kiley-Dunbar/dp/1836566972

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If you are in need of a seriously feel good story, full of people who care, a gentle loving storyline and a very happy ending Saving Christmas at the Highland Repair Shop is most definitely the book for you.

Returning to the Cairngorms, to the little village of Cairn Dhu, gateway to the Cairngorm National Park, home to the slowly failing and falling into disrepair Cairn Dhu ski centre, we discover Hamish Skelton is at his wits end as the snow has not fallen, the people are all heading to the newer, classier resort further along the valley and he is facing an audit with almost definite closure on 25 December.

Florrie Norheim has been sent by her father to do a report on the ailing business which she sees is a chance to get to know her father better; a man who broke not only her mother’s heart, but hers when he choose business over them when she was a small girl.

She arrives in Cairn Dhu in the middle of the ‘Christmas Office Party’ lunch service, discovering she did not have a reservation the prestigious Cairn Dhu Hotel. She is now facing the fact she has nowhere to stay, she is tired, hungry, upset, has little or no phone reception and the rain is sneaking down inside her winter jacket.

Meanwhile Rhoda Gifford, from the wonderful Repair Shop café is gently reminiscing about a time when she was young, in love and enjoying life riding down the hills of the Cairn Dhu ski centre on a new red toboggin built for her by the love of her life Eric Shaw. In love for the first and last time she still pines for a love that never became so much more.

Once again Kiley Dunbar has set the scene for a lovely warm-hearted and enjoyable return to Cairn Dhu, where magic really does happen, love blooms and sometime more than one miracle occurs.

Saving Christmas at the Highland Repair Shop is highly recommended for an afternoon out of the madding rush wrapped in the covers of a most enjoyable book.

Fiction, General, Romance