With love from Miss Lily: a Christmas Story
β Scribed by Jackie French
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers;HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 115 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1460709993
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β¦ Synopsis
From the author of Miss Lily's Lovely Ladies comes a moving and heart-warming story that is perfect for Christmas - and beyond. December1918Thisfirst peacetime Christmas should be perfect. Butthis is a ceasefire, not peace. Influenza ravages Europe and the hospital suppliesSophie ordered six months ago have not arrived from Australia. Andthe old woman in Ward 3 will not stop knitting. Yeteven in war-torn Europe, Christmas miracles are possible, as a stranger revealsthe extraordinary story of how thousands of female resistance workers sentcoded messages, including the most important message a woman can send. Andsomehow Christmas does arrive, the perfect Christmas, with love from Miss Lily.
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