The Holiday Cottage: a reflective book review on burnout, rest, and independence

I picked up The Holiday Cottage by Sarah Morgan expecting exactly what the cover promised: a cozy Christmas escape, maybe some light romance, definitely something I could breeze through without much thought. But this one stuck with me. Days after finishing, I kept coming back to it—thinking about burnout, about mother-daughter relationships, and how our culture sometimes confuses independence with just being alone.