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"It's Christmas time, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a se...

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Main Author: Nicholls, Sally, 1983- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books, 2022.
Edition:First US edition.
Subjects:
Adoption > Young adult fiction.
Secrecy > Young adult fiction.
Unmarried mothers > Young adult fiction.
Betrothal > Young adult fiction.
Secrets > Young adult fiction.
War > Young adult fiction.
War fiction > Young adult.
Domestic fiction > Young adult.
Historical fiction > Young adult.
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Summary:"It's Christmas time, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot's family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time since the War ended. And Harry, it turns out, isn't dead. He's alive and well, and looking for answers"--Amazon.
Physical Description:227 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781536223187
1536223182
Author Notes:Sally Nicholls is a renowned author whose first novel, Ways to Live Forever , won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and inspired a feature film. Her books have been short-listed for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal (twice), and have been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Oxford, England.

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