A Christmas to Remember
Contents (20)
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Katie Flynn
Title Page
Dedication
Letter to the Reader
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Copyright
About the Book
A few days before Christmas, Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne’s tobacconist shop, with two boys in hot pursuit, saying she’s a thief. Albert chases the boys away, and though Tess does not realise it, this incident changes her life.
Tess lives with her grandmother, Edie, in a small flat on Heyworth Street. She has recently returned from Bell Farm, where she was evacuated during the war, and is being bullied by her schoolmates, but when the handsome Snowy White comes to her rescue she thinks her troubles are over, and returns for a working holiday to Bell Farm and her old friend Jonty.
This leaves Edie to her own devices, however, and Tess is jealous of the friendship which blossoms between her grandmother and the tobacconist. Yet though Tess resents Albert, it is to him she turns when things start to go wrong . . .
About the Author
Katie Flynn has lived for many years in the north-west of England. A compulsive writer, she started with short stories and articles and many of her early stories were broadcast on Radio Merseyside. She decided to write her Liverpool series after hearing the reminiscences of family members about life in the city in the early years of the twentieth century. For many years, she has had to cope with ME, but has still continued to write.
Now a regular Sunday Times bestseller, and the author of over thirty-four much-loved novels, she is now the UK’s biggest selling author of nostalgic fiction.
Also available by Katie Flynn
A Liverpool Lass
The Girl from Penny Lane
Liverpool Taffy
The Mersey Girls
Strawberry Fields
Rainbow’s End
Rose of Tralee
No Silver Spoon
Polly’s Angel
The Girl from Seaforth Sands
The Liverpool Rose
Poor Little Rich Girl
The Bad Penny
Down Daisy Street
A Kiss and a Promise
Two Penn’orth of Sky
A Long and Lonely Road
The Cuckoo Child
Darkest Before Dawn
Orphans of the Storm
Little Girl Lost
Beyond the Blue Hills
Forgotten Dreams
Sunshine and Shadows
Such Sweet Sorrow
A Mother’s Hope
In Time for Christmas
Heading Home
A Mistletoe Kiss
The Lost Days of Summer
Christmas Wishes
The Runaway
A Sixpenny Christmas
The Forget-Me-Not Summer
Available by Katie Flynn writing as Judith Saxton
You Are My Sunshine
First Love, Last Love
Someone Special
A Christmas to Remember
Katie Flynn
For Graham and Deb – not before time!
Letter to the reader
Dear Reader,
Ideas! People often ask me where my ideas for a story come from, which is not always easy to answer. They come from various sources, but when I’m asked I can usually reel off two or three. The Girl from Seaforth Sands came as a result of driving down a road in Seaforth and seeing a young girl emerging from a doorway like a bullet from a gun and rushing away up the road. I had recently interviewed a lady aged 104 about her life, and it was when she told me that her father was a shrimp fisherman and expected his children to prepare his catch for potting that I remembered how she had also said that she left the house at a run whenever she heard his shrimp-laden handcart come rumbling up the street.