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Thank you, to all the people who have already
entered yesterday’s competition! The responses so far are beautiful, and there
is still time to enter, as the competition doesn’t close until 6 p.m. GMT on
Friday 6th December.
Today, to celebrate the 5th day of Advent,
please feel free to help yourself to a free kindle version of
The Counting House – a story about childhood:
“When seven-year-old Georgie, desperate to win
the attention of her hero, James, steals a candlestick from a cemetery lodge,
she believes that the devil has seen her and will follow her home. Her
conviction is heightened that evening when tragedy strikes the family.
Guilt-ridden, Georgie sets out on a quest to become a saint, in the hope that
God will grant her a miracle. Her sincere but often bizarre efforts lead her
through various escapades from a remote Yorkshire farmhouse to being lost in
London, when she is accosted by a sinister stranger. The arrival of a distant
relative throws her world into greater confusion as she comes to understand the
nature of good, evil and accident. The story is populated by a variety of
eccentric characters; feisty ex-suffragette, Great Aunt Lucy; the pious but
increasingly senile Great Aunt Philomena; beautiful French Aunt Marie and her
huge explorer husband; the cruel teacher, Miss Keppel; and the contrasting
personalities of Georgie and her friends and siblings.”
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