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The Evacuee Christmas
Katie King
A heart-warming story of friendship and family during the first Christmas of World War Two.Autumn 1939 and London prepares to evacuate its young. In No 5 Jubilee Street, Bermondsey, ten-year-old Connie is determined to show her parents that she’s a brave girl and can look after her twin brother, Jessie. She won’t cry, not while anyone’s watching.In the crisp Yorkshire Dales, Connie and Jessie are billeted to a rambling vicarage. Kindly but chaotic, Reverend Braithwaite is determined to keep his London charges on the straight and narrow, but the twins soon find adventures of their own. As autumn turns to winter, Connie’s dearest wish is that war will end and they will be home for Christmas. But this Christmas Eve there will be an unexpected arrival…
KATIE KING is a new voice to the saga market. She lives in Kent, and has worked in publishing. She has a keen interest in twentieth-century history and this novel was inspired by a period spent living in south-east London.
Copyright (#ulink_81789314-0eb5-501e-8ca8-d7721b971c3e)
An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2017
Copyright © Katie King 2017
Katie King asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Ebook Edition © October 2017 ISBN: 9780008257552
Version: 2018-04-17
Contents
Cover (#u99ff3c97-9cc2-561b-be15-5ea9a286560b)
About the Author (#u1908544f-a7f5-5b04-a3a8-0d3625a5fe01)
Title Page (#u1f60c6ce-b29c-5ca6-ab93-07196df46952)
Copyright (#ulink_49a28fbe-cb11-5017-9a81-fcb78090a514)
Chapter One (#ulink_19024ccb-3f34-5867-9bfa-67d4c1ace7f9)
Chapter Two (#ulink_7033f0a8-e7e2-5e3d-8d60-8f43bd077117)
Chapter Three (#ulink_c4120330-1582-5743-a3ea-7b18276cca60)
Chapter Four (#ulink_98987900-072b-59f9-b9f1-16e45de8ef79)
Chapter Five (#ulink_966a2b6a-cf68-5eb5-a17a-c33c9f99e70d)
Chapter Six (#ulink_2b09b8be-4a5f-5b02-9de9-b3dfcba07d6a)
Chapter Seven (#ulink_32aaf1f6-b483-5992-b385-ae759506dbce)
Chapter Eight (#ulink_dfc80d81-57d8-54db-9ce3-2aa083c38deb)
Chapter Nine (#ulink_3eccc585-b6bf-5e28-9716-94a0d8560c25)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty (#litres_trial_promo)
Katie King
A heart-warming story of friendship and family during the first Christmas of World War Two.Autumn 1939 and London prepares to evacuate its young. In No 5 Jubilee Street, Bermondsey, ten-year-old Connie is determined to show her parents that she’s a brave girl and can look after her twin brother, Jessie. She won’t cry, not while anyone’s watching.In the crisp Yorkshire Dales, Connie and Jessie are billeted to a rambling vicarage. Kindly but chaotic, Reverend Braithwaite is determined to keep his London charges on the straight and narrow, but the twins soon find adventures of their own. As autumn turns to winter, Connie’s dearest wish is that war will end and they will be home for Christmas. But this Christmas Eve there will be an unexpected arrival…
KATIE KING is a new voice to the saga market. She lives in Kent, and has worked in publishing. She has a keen interest in twentieth-century history and this novel was inspired by a period spent living in south-east London.
Copyright (#ulink_81789314-0eb5-501e-8ca8-d7721b971c3e)
An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2017
Copyright © Katie King 2017
Katie King asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
Ebook Edition © October 2017 ISBN: 9780008257552
Version: 2018-04-17
Contents
Cover (#u99ff3c97-9cc2-561b-be15-5ea9a286560b)
About the Author (#u1908544f-a7f5-5b04-a3a8-0d3625a5fe01)
Title Page (#u1f60c6ce-b29c-5ca6-ab93-07196df46952)
Copyright (#ulink_49a28fbe-cb11-5017-9a81-fcb78090a514)
Chapter One (#ulink_19024ccb-3f34-5867-9bfa-67d4c1ace7f9)
Chapter Two (#ulink_7033f0a8-e7e2-5e3d-8d60-8f43bd077117)
Chapter Three (#ulink_c4120330-1582-5743-a3ea-7b18276cca60)
Chapter Four (#ulink_98987900-072b-59f9-b9f1-16e45de8ef79)
Chapter Five (#ulink_966a2b6a-cf68-5eb5-a17a-c33c9f99e70d)
Chapter Six (#ulink_2b09b8be-4a5f-5b02-9de9-b3dfcba07d6a)
Chapter Seven (#ulink_32aaf1f6-b483-5992-b385-ae759506dbce)
Chapter Eight (#ulink_dfc80d81-57d8-54db-9ce3-2aa083c38deb)
Chapter Nine (#ulink_3eccc585-b6bf-5e28-9716-94a0d8560c25)
Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-two (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-three (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-four (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-five (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-six (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-seven (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-eight (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Twenty-nine (#litres_trial_promo)
Chapter Thirty (#litres_trial_promo)
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