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    A Quiet Winter: A Short Story

    By Isabel Ashdown

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    An exclusive short story by award-winning author Isabel Ashdown.

    Two years after her father's death, Sarah Ribbons prepares to spend the festive season on her own in his crumbling old cottage. It's not the idea of being alone that bothers her - she's determined not to be a burden on well-meaning friends who try to coax her into joining them for Christmas - in fact, Sarah thinks she has life as she likes it: firmly under control. But when an unexpected email raises the ghosts of a distant past, she finds herself questioning this way of life - and discovers friendship in the least likely of places.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMyriad Editions
    Release dateNov 26, 2015
    ISBN9781908434081
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    A Quiet Winter: A Short Story
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    Isabel Ashdown

    Isabel Ashdown is the author of four critically acclaimed novels: Flight (2015), Summer of ’76 (2013), Hurry Up and Wait (2011) and Glasshopper (2009). Her first novel, Glasshopper (Observer Best Debuts, Evening Standard Best Books of the Year), won the Mail on Sunday Novel Competition. She lives in West Sussex with her husband and two children.

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