The Great Christmas Knit Off. Alexandra Brown
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Название: The Great Christmas Knit Off

Автор: Alexandra Brown

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Современные любовные романы

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isbn: 9780007597376

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       Copyright

      Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Harper 2014

      Copyright © Alexandra Brown 2014

      Cover images © Shutterstock.com

      Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2014

      Map © Nicolette Caven 2014

      Alexandra Brown 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.

      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.

      Source ISBN: 9780007597369

      Ebook Edition © November 2014 9780007597376

      Version: 2016-12-14

       Dedication

      For my Nanny Edie

      Who always loved a good knit and natter session xxx

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       ‘In the rhythm of the needles there is music for the soul.’

       – Anonymous

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

       Map

       Epigraph

      Prologue

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Epilogue

       Acknowledgements

       Keep Reading Not Just for Christmas

       About the Author

       Also by Alexandra Brown

       About the Publisher

       Prologue

      Hettie Honey picked up a lovely lavender lace weight that a customer had abandoned by the till after pondering for what seemed like an eternity that, actually, it wasn’t the right shade of lavender after all. She then walked across the shop floor of her House of Haberdashery to repatriate the ball into its rightful place – a wooden, floor-to-ceiling cabinet comprising twenty-four cubbyholes inset over three shelves crammed with every colour, ply, and type of yarn imaginable. Hettie smiled wryly, remembering the programme she had listened to on the radio not so long ago. Knitting! It was all the rage nowadays and she hoped it would finally catch on in Tindledale, her beloved picture-postcard village and Hettie’s home for the eighty-three years of her life to date. She ran the timber-framed, double-fronted shop adjacent to the wisteria-clad roundel of the oast house her father had built before she was even born.

      Hettie lifted the tray on which sat the last remnants of her afternoon tea; a cheese sandwich minus the crusts because her СКАЧАТЬ