Settle in with four stories of winter wishes, family loyalties and women finding strength through difficult times. A Woolworths store faces closure, a toffee factory faces sugar rationing, a widow runs from an unwanted pursuer and a girl races to save her sisters from the workhouse. Each holds together a family, a shop floor or a street. Each is short of time, money or both. Christmas, as ever, will not wait!
Elaine Everest, A Christmas Wish at Woolworths
Kent, 1953. With the Erith Woolworths store facing closure, manager Betty Billington and her team must make December a success. Festive events, friendship and community spirit offer hope of a Christmas rescue.
Rita Bradshaw, The Winter Rose
Widowed just before her daughter's first Christmas, Rose O’Leary flees an unwanted pursuer and fights to build a safe future. When love returns, her past threatens the happiness she has struggled to find.
Judy Summers, A Winter's Wish
Liverpool, 1847. Seventeen-year-old Delilah Shaw must hold her family together after tragedy. Selling flowers offers a chance to bring her younger sisters home from the workhouse, but time is running out.
Glenda Young, Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls
In wartime Durham, sugar rationing threatens Mr Jack's toffee factory. Anne, Elsie and Hetty face difficult choices, hidden secrets and uncertain futures.
Contains four paperback books. Set reference: PFRS762A.
