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Everyone LOVES Katie Ginger!

‘So warm hearted and beautifully written with such a perfect ending’

Phillipa Ashley

‘Perfect escapism!’

Cressida McLaughlin

‘Perfect for a winter’s evening … Loved it!!’

Julie Houston

‘A moving, festive, absolutely gorgeous read! Perfect for curling up with this Christmas’ Samantha Tonge

‘A charming love story, that makes you want to curl up in a cosy cottage [in] front of a roaring fire whilst drinking hot chocolate. A perfect read in the run up to Christmas’

NetGalley reviewer

‘This is a story that will pull at your heartstrings and I absolutely loved it!’

NetGalley reviewer

‘Oh. My. Gosh … This is a must-read [for] everyone who wants to feel cosy and snuggly and get ready for Christmas early’

NetGalley reviewer

‘A perfect read for the cosy evenings leading up to Christmas and for getting you into the Christmas spirit’

NetGalley reviewer

‘Loved this book!’

NetGalley reviewer

‘Oh what a treat, I started reading and was only interrupted by 7 hours of sleep, I fell asleep reading it and on waking found that apart from making a cuppa I couldn’t do anything else apart from getting to the end, just couldn’t put it down’

NetGalley reviewer

About the Author

KATIE GINGER lives by the sea in the south-east of England, and apart from holidays to very hot places where you can sit by a pool and drink cocktails as big as your head, she wouldn’t really want to be anywhere else. The Perfect Christmas Gift is Katie’s eighth novel. She was shortlisted for the Katie Fforde Debut Novel of the Year award for her first novel The Little Theatre on the Seafront.

When she’s not writing, Katie spends her time with her husband and two kids, and their dogs: Wotsit, the King Charles spaniel, and Skips, the three-legged Romanian rescue dog. (And yes, they are both named after crisps!)

For more about Katie, you can visit her website: www.keginger.com, find her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/KatieGAuthor, follow her on Twitter: @KatieGAuthor or sign up to her newsletter here: http://bit.ly/3gbqMS0

Also by Katie Ginger

The Little Theatre on the Seafront

Summer Season on the Seafront

Snowflakes at Mistletoe Cottage

Spring Tides at Swallowtail Bay

Summer Strawberries at Swallowtail Bay

Winter Wishes at Swallowtail Bay

The Secrets of Meadow Farmhouse

The Perfect Christmas Gift

KATIE GINGER

Dedication

To our lovely great-gran Betty and great-grandpa Ernie

Chapter 1

‘Amias,’ Bella said before biting her lip to stop the laugh escaping. She shouldn’t have found it funny, but it was. The boy looked ridiculous and the giggle emerging from his friend was so heart-warming, you couldn’t fail to smile, but she pulled in her cheeks and put on her teacher voice. ‘Please could you remove the pencils from your nose and ears and give them back to Umar and Richard?’