A Mother’s Blessing. Annie Groves
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Название: A Mother’s Blessing

Автор: Annie Groves

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Сказки

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isbn: 9780007279500

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      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

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      First published in Great Britain as Goodnight Sweetheart HarperCollinsPublishers 2006

      This edition published 2020

      Copyright © Annie Groves 2006

      Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd.

      Cover photographs © Gordon Crabbe (model), Daily Herald Archive / Getty Images (background)

      Annie Groves asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue copy of 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.

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      Source ISBN: 9780008395872

      Ebook Edition © January 2009 ISBN: 9780007279500

      Version: 2020-01-30

       Dedication

       For Maxine – confidence-builder extraordinaire

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      Part One: July 1939

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Part Two: Christmas 1939

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Chapter Twenty-Three

       Chapter Twenty-Four

       Part Three: October 1940

       Chapter Twenty-Five

       Chapter Twenty-Six

       Chapter Twenty-Seven

       Chapter Twenty-Eight

       Chapter Twenty-Nine

       Chapter Thirty

       Chapter Thirty-One

       Chapter Thirty-Two

       Chapter Thirty-Three

       Chapter Thirty-Four

       Chapter Thirty-Five

       Chapter Thirty-Six

       Acknowledgements

       Keep Reading …

       About Annie Groves

       Also by Annie Groves

       About the Publisher

PART ONE

       ONE

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