"Lights flickered invitingly behind its lowered blinds and its yellow walls and steeply pitched red roof made Bo think of fairy-tale cottages and gingerbread houses."

Boughey, known as Bo, is a 26-year-old hip Londoner. She loves living in the City, has a good job, even though she isn't really thrilled about doing it, lives in a small flat (but at least away from her parents) with her best friend and has her eye on a new colleague. Ben, though, insists on keeping their relationship a secret so things wouldn't be awkward at the office. The dissatisfaction with her circumstances make Bo feel as though she's headed for a quarter life crisis.

But when she is made redundant at her firm, her life spirals. he's held onto the reigns tightly, and now feels like an utter loser. Kirsten, her friend, convinces her to go to Aslbrog, a small town in Denmark where her mother owns a cabin, to de-stress and find her equilibrium. To her surprise, the cabin has a few more guests, friends of Kirsten mom's, but Bo soon learns that some company might be good for her soul, especially when Emil comes knocking at the door.

"Hygge is about the shared experience, not the end result."

Now, I must say I did not enjoy the book too much. The whole fist part with the office gossip and her "relationship" with Ben, her obsession with him... Well, it got annoying way too fast. It is obvious to the reader he is using her, though somehow not to her and her constant worrying about what he's doing, stalking him on social media, wallowing - well, it gets old. Her obtuse refusal to see him for what he is and the self-esteem issues unfortunately failed to make her more sympathetic to me. I wanted to smack her upside the head and yell at her to open her eyes. She also jumps into a relationship with Emil with no thought about Ben - even though they haven't broken up yet, and even though she's been miserable about his lack of affection 20 pages earlier.

Another thing that struck me and was the pacing. The first, boring, part of the book dragged on way too much. The part in the summerhouse was too short, and especially the ending which felt like extended bullet points. The whole premise of the book is her going to Denmark, learning about hygge and starting to appreciate the simpler things in life, starting to move slower and take in the life going on around her. There was also something frustrating about Bo as a character as well, that I just cannot pin down exactly, that made me not root for her, made me not care if she got her happy ending. When it came in the end it felt rushed and unearned.

"It occurred to her that for the first time in ages, she felt completely at ease, not just with the people around her, but with herself."

The things I wrote in my notebook while reading: "Idiot." "She's petulant." "Annoying and stupid." "All her choices are motivated by this jerk (Ben)." "She's a mess - acts like a teenager." "Just making a spectacle of herself." "Stop whining." So yeah... I did not really like Bo.