I didn’t care for this book. It is the story of a family with triplets. One of the triplets
becomes the village Vicar after a family legacy of her grandfather was the Vicar years
ago. The family has a lot of secrets and miscommunication through the years. I found all
of this boring and the story just dragged along; I put it down for a couple of weeks then
came back and finished it. I believe it could have been about half as long. It is nicely
written just includes too many frivolous details in my opinion. I give it 2 stars.
I received an advance copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest
review.

Rosa's life as a high flying businesswoman takes a sudden turn, and years later she returns to the village she was brought up in, to take over as vicar and to live in the vicarage that her grandparents lived in. She is one of triplets, and her sisters Eva and Hannah also live in the village. Can they all get through the curve balls love throws at them, and settle happily together at last?

A sweet, quick read. Multiple quirky characters, lots of miscommunication, and some sweet family relationships are explored.

What an absolutely gorgeous story, full of warmth, love, family and community. The journeys of the triplets was exceptionally good and I enjoyed all the twists and turns

It took a while to get into this book. It stay with it as it gets better. Three sisters, triplets are born to an artist who decides rather than give the children up for adoption her sister will adopted the girls and raise them. One is a village vicar, one a dentist and one works with young offenders. The book follows them plus their family both blood relatives and adopted family. Thanks to Julie Houston and your publisher. Thanks also to NetGalley.

I received this book from the publisher through Netgalley. I am voluntarily writing this review. All opinions are completely my own.

This is a story about 3 sisters who happen to be triplets. One has returned to the area of their family, to become a vicar. One is a dentist in a large practice with her husband. One is an officer in juvenile court who tries to find the best outcome for youngsters in trouble.

These lives should have been interesting to me. This story line should have drawn me right into the story. It didn’t.

There was not one character who I liked. I think that is because I could not get into their lives. Lots of unfaithfulness is not what I was hoping to read. It just was very difficult for me to immerse myself in this story.

I know it is just me, but no one drew me into their story and I did not really care about that.

Loved it, but I pretty much have loved all the books that take place in Westenbury!! It was nice that the book mainly focused on Rosa, Eva and Hannah, rather than the usual characters that have been in the previous books. The triplets are quite the characters, all with different personalities and not afraid to voice their opinions. I don't remember if Bill Astley was ever mentioned in the previous books, after awhile the books and characters start to blend together. Alice Parkes was definitely my least favorite character in the book. The girls were lucky to have Susan and Richard as their parents and not Alice. Susan's revelation was shocking and not what I was expecting. Hannah shouldn't have been too shocked about Alexandra's declaration at church. That was quite a priceless moment. Hannah was doing exactly what Joe did to Rosa. I was afraid Rosa was going to forgive Joe and get back together with him. She seemed to blame Carys for what happened. Azra is a great mother-in-law, even if she shows up unexpectedly and stays for undetermined amounts of time. The book focuses on love, forgiveness, family relationship, friendship and so much more. Every time I read the books about Westenbury, I want to live there and become friends with everyone. Loved the mentioning of Virginia working at Piccone's Pickles.

Definitely recommend the book. Loved the characters, story and writing style. Look forward to reading more books by the author. I simply can't resist going back to Westenbury.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from Aria & Aries through NetGalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Thank you NetGalley, Julie Houston and Aria & Aries for the ARC of The Village Vicar. This is my personal review.
This book for me was flat and not very entertaining. I was expecting so much more than it gave me. I could not connect with any of the characters in this book. It had some good parts but no enough to keep my mind on what I was reading.

After a very successful career in London, Rosa Quinn returns to Westenbury to be the village vicar. Rosa hadn’t planned to return to the village where she grew up but a health scare and a change of career mean she finds herself back in the vicarage where her grandparents lived.
Her sisters, Eva a successful dentist and Hannah a youth worker, are pleased to see her back. Returning to the village brings back a lot of memories, not all of them good, but Rosa is determined to lay the ghosts of the past to rest. This could be harder than she thought though when her old love, Joe, also returns.
As triplets the sisters have always been close but as long held secrets come to the surface, they will need all of their family love and loyalty to stick together.
This is a lovely story of family, friendship and love. It’s well written and set in a beautiful location. I found myself totally absorbed in each sisters story and the relationship they had with each other and their other family members.

The story of three united sisters living in the small Yorkshire village they grew up in.
A slightly Bohemian family in one way, and a traditional family in some aspects.
The three sisters have very different professional lives. One is a dentist, married
with two children running a flourishing practice, the other is a youth counsellor
dealing with troubled kids and the other is tge vicar returning to the same church
where her disliked grandfather was vicar. She forms the main part of this story.

The lives of the three sisters is complicated. The married one is bored, looks for
excitement and finds it in the new hire in the clinic. Unfortunately for her, his
interests lie elsewhere. The next is involved with a married man, swears to the sisters
that she broke it off/going to and doesnt until full drama in the form of his wife
turning up at church and creating a scene that was so dramatic, it was pure theatre
and then we have the vicar returning after a bout of cancer, on top of a devastating love
affair to find that her ex lover has also moved back home.

The drama in their lives spill over but the strong bond of sisterhood overcomes any
other problems they face. A interesting take on sisters, motherhood and vicars(my knowledge
of vicars is zero)

A nice easy read. Not the most exciting of storylines, but sometimes you don’t want that from a book. There were some twists, although it was predictable. I enjoyed this book whilst on holiday.

I've been a fan of Julie Houston's for a while now and each book she writes is a little better than the last! I loved this story of 3 triplet sisters and their lives.
I also loved the characters, both major and minor ones, who brought the setting of Westenbury to life once more!
I love how Julie can bring both humour and a little sadness into her stories. This one didn't disappoint. It is always nice to see characters from her other books mentioned occasionally, whilst never detracting from the story being played out.
I can't wait to find out what happens next in Westenbury - the stories are so interesting it makes me want to move there, myself!

A lovely story of 3 sisters and how they discover a complicated family history.. A real page turner with lots of laughs along the way. One of the sisters Rosa returns to Westenbury as a vicar and when she meets her ex who she never got over cheating on her.
What follows is a journey from discovering their real birth mother to finding out past secrets.
Thoroughly enjoyed thanks to NetGalley & Aria & Aries publishers for a advanced copy.
Would highly recommend.

"The Village Vicar" is an unexpected character with an interesting career history and fascinating family background. There probably couldn't be three more different women than triplets Rosa, Eva and Hannah, but they stick together and support each other. Rosa is the new vicar, back in her childhood village, Eva is a high-flying dentist with two children and an ambitious husband, while Hannah is a youth worker used to dealing with delinquent teenagers, but who sometimes struggles with adults.

As the women properly re-unite for the first time in many years (Rosa had been working in London) they are all battling problems and trying to sort out their lives. This book deals with some serious issues and is not quite as light hearted as the cover illustration might suggest. Very enjoyable and recommended.

Thanks to Net Galley and the publishers for the opportunity to review this book.

Yet another fantastic novel by Julie Houston!

An up-lifting and heart-warming plot that kept me wanting to read from the very first page. I love the delicate way that she weaves the strands of her characters lives together. I adored exploring the relationship between the sisters. Such a fun read!

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I have enjoyed all this authors books and this was no exception. It was a great feel good lovely read. I would recommend to others.

This has been a book I have been looking forward to, and it didn't disappoint, Rosa Quinn head back to her childhood village after training to be a vicar,

This book made me smile from start to finish, raced though but didn't really want the end to come.

Three devoted sisters... One complicated family.
When Rosa Quinn left her childhood home in Westenbury, she never expected to return over a decade later as the village vicar. But after a health scare and catching her boyfriend cheating, Rosa jumps at the chance to start over and live closer to her triplet sisters Eva and Hannah.
But Rosa's isn't the only recent return to the village, and when her role in the parish throws her into the path of her ex, she begins to wonder if she's made a terrible mistake. Meanwhile, Eva and Hannah face their own troubles, as secrets about their family threaten to emerge.
Can Rosa make a life for herself in Westenbury? Or will the sisters discover that you can't run away from the past?

The first book by this author that I had the pleasure of reading, very similar to the likes of Katie Fforde and Philipa Ashley which was brilliant. I enjoyed the differing storylines amongst the triplets and the twist at the end was an added bonus

I have read many Julie Houston books, and I have loved each one, but (and it's a very small but) this one didn't quite hit the mark as the others have done and I do hate saying that, but this one just didn't have the old magic, it's a charming lovely and very sweet story and there were aspects of it I did really like, but not one of my favourites. Sorry!

I won't focus too much on what I didn't like, as I don't that's fair, but for me, it was the pacing and I found it slow at the beginning which prevented me from properly getting into the story right from the start.

So I will focus on what I did like; the setting - for those who know me will know that any book set in Yorkshire and I will read it, I loved the descriptions of the village and the area, it's charming and vivid in the mind. I liked the sisters, Rosa (whose story we're reading) has moved back to her home village after a broken relationship and after giving everything up to retain as a vicar - yes, I thought that was a little different too, but a good twist on the usual female character storyline. Her two sisters; Hannah and Eva, aren't as happily loved up as they all would like to make out and so we head into the realms of emotional womens fiction territory ( which I do love) I did enjoy learning about the sister's history and their backstories, it explains a lot of the women they have become.

I liked the love-hate relationships which entwine within the story, it's complex and emotional at the same time and I did enjoy that, I just wished that it didn't feel as slow. But hey, that's just me.

Overall, a heart-warming story of family and love, it's not my personal favourite of the author's catalogue but it's still worth a read for anyone who has either read the author before or loves emotional stories!

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I didn't enjoy this book as much as previous reads from this author. I found the start quite slow and the whole book seemed rather disjointed at times between different characters and time frames. However, it is a light and easy story to follow with characters who are well developed especially the dynamics between the triplets each with their own problematical lives. Some entertaining funny passages which lighten the book through some of the more confusing parts. Although I didn't get on with the book as I thought I would, it is still worth a go as a holiday read.