TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flynn,Katie
TI  - A sixpenny Christmas
SN  - 9781780890432 (hbk.)
U1  - 823.914 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Century
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Wales
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Stalkers
KW  - Family life
KW  - Liverpool (England)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
N2  - MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). As the worst storm of the century breaks across the North West, sweeping through Snowdonia and across the Mersey to burst upon Liverpool, two women, Molly and Ellen, give birth to girls in a Liverpool maternity hospital. Despite their different backgrounds, they become firm friends. Molly lives on a hill farm in Snowdonia while Ellen is married to Sam O'Mara, a dock worker who is quicker with a punch than a kiss.  After one punch too many, Ellen throws her husband out, and eventually leaves Liverpool to live with Molly in Snowdonia. Ellen and her daughter throw themselves into their new life with enthusiasm, unaware that they are being watched by someone hiding in a ruined cottage higher up the mountain. And as another horrendous storm breaks across the hills, the watcher makes his move
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