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The Christmas Card
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
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The new novel from Sunday Times best seller Dilly Court.
She turned the picture of the Christmas card over with her frozen hands. The scene showed a family at Yuletide as they gathered around the magnificent tree. Standing stiff with cold on the icy cobbles, Alice could only dream....
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- Ros H.
- 08-12-2017
A great story
I was a bit worried at the start if I was going to like this story. But I really did enjoy it. It had quite a few twists and turns.
Alice, who is the main character seems to get herself into lots of different circumstances. You think there is either nothing worse that could happen to her or that things might just work out. And then she just seems to get misunderstood or goes off at a tangent.
It has a bit of a mystery as well as a bit of romance.
A fun book that I really enjoyed as the narrator helped with her capture of the different characters
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