The Northern Lights Lodge - Julie Caplin

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Title: The Northern Lights Lodge (Romantic Escapes #4)
Author: Julie Caplin
Genre: Chicklit, travel
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: Audiobook ~13hrs
Date read: December 2023

With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn’t quite expect to find herself in a land of bubbling hot springs and snowflake-dusted glaciers – and in the company of gorgeous Scottish barman, Alex.

Determined to turn her life around, Lucy sets about making the lodge the number one romantic destination in Iceland – even though romance is the last thing she wants. However, as Alex and Lucy grow closer under the dancing lights of the aurora, Lucy might just learn how to fall in love again…


Not quite as good as the two previous books I've read by Julie Caplin, but as always she writes her settings so well, that I'm always extremely eager to go visit whatever place she sets her books in - and this was no exception. I actually found myself WANTING to go to Iceland in November when it's cold, dark and wet! Now THAT is a real achievement!

All the subterfuge annoyed me - both with regards to Lucy and her past, as well as Alex and his reason for being there. The latter sort of made sense (and was fortunately explained in the book), the former less so, once Lucy began to make friends with her colleagues, but thankfully she spoke up about it before Bob could end up being too much of a nuisance. And I loved the way first Alex and then the girls handled Bob and Clive!