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A beautiful, bittersweet WWI romance lights up an English village at Christmas with harrowing secrets, love lost and found, and the breathtaking power of forgiveness. Vivid and achingly real, Sally Nicholls's latest historical romance explores the fallout from an unexpected pregnancy during the First World War. It's Christmastime, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiance, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot's family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time since the War ended. And Harry, it turns out, isn't dead. He's alive and well, and looking for answers. Can their love survive the truth? Based on the author's family history, this evocative and stirring exploration of the human and emotional side of war is young-adult historical fiction at its finest, written with the immediacy and understanding of the complexities of the human heart that are the hallmark of the author's work.

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A festive treat of a story about family, lost loves, and finding yourself again after tragedy. -- Emma Carroll, author of In Darkling Wood A gorgeous, poignant, unputdownable new Christmas classic. -- Hilary McKay, author of The Skylarks' War Bittersweet perfection. -- The Guardian (UK) Sally Nicholls conjures another era with a miraculous lightness of touch that fills me with joy and envy. Her characters don't just leap off the page; they grab you by the collar, demand your sympathy, and surprise you at every turn. -- Frances Hardinge, author of The Lie Tree

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Sally Nicholls is an award-winning author whose first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Her books have been short-listed for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal. She lives in Oxford, England, with her family Elizabeth Knowelden is an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator who has been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. As an actress, she trained in London at the Webber Douglas Academy where she received a Sir Laurence Olivier Commendation. Her acting credits include theater, musicals, and national tours in the United Kingdom. Also a film actress, she has participated in BAFTA's Newcomers Program.

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