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The Snow Sister
From the queen of historical fiction, the critically acclaimed author of Frost Hollow Hall andThe Girl Who Walked on Air, comes a beautiful Christmas novella from with just a hint of festive magic.
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Ever since her sister, Agnes, died, Pearl has a tradition every time it snows. She makes a person out of snow. A snow sister. It makes Christmas feel a little less lonely.
On Christmas Eve, her father receives a letter about a long-lost relative’s will. Is their luck about to change? In anticipation of a better Christmas, Pearl goes to beg credit at Mr Noble’s grocery to get ingredients for a Christmas pudding. But she is refused, and chased down the street where she is hit by a hansom cab. The snow is falling so hard that they can’t take her home. She’ll have to stay at Flintfield Manor overnight, in a haunted room… Will Pearl make it home for Christmas?
Emma Carroll writes original, timeless stories.
The period is evoked beautifully....no tween girl's stocking is safe
An absorbing, seasonal novella, which is brimming with atmospheric detail
An absorbing tale
Once told by poet Ted Hughes her writing was ‘dangerous’, it took Emma Carroll twenty years of English teaching and a life-changing cancer diagnosis to feel brave enough to give her dream of being an author a try. Nowadays, she’s a bestselling author and the ‘Queen of Historical Fiction’ (BookTrust). She has been nominated for and the winner of numerous…
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