β Scribed by Boxall, Rebecca
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Can the secrets of the past be forgiven this Christmas?
Christmas is approaching on the island of Jersey, but Libby is feeling far from festive. Her police work and duties as vicarβs wife weigh heavily on her, sheβs anxious about her troubled children, and now her best friend, Stella, has suddenly turned against her, citing a mysterious family grudge.
Libby is devastated by Stellaβs unexpected coldness. But then her father shows her a diary written by her great-aunt Queenie, which sheds light on a long-hidden secretβone rooted in love, loyalty and betrayal. Writing during the Nazi occupation of Jersey in the winter of 1941, Queenie reveals a community torn apart by illicit romance, heartbreak and revengeβand by dark acts of fear and desperation.
The more Libby immerses herself in Queenieβs journal, the more she understands why its secrets still haunt her family and Stellaβs. Christmas is a time of forgiveness, but is the treachery of their shared past too shameful to be forgotten?
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Rebecca Boxall was born in 1977 in East Sussex, where she grew up in a bustling vicarage always filled with family, friends and parishioners. She now lives by the sea in Jersey with her husband and two children. She read English at the University of Warwick before training as a lawyer, and also studied Creative Writing with The Writerβs Bureau. Christmas on the Coast is her third novel.
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