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    A Christmas Cracker
    A Christmas Cracker
    A Christmas Cracker
    Audiobook12 hours

    A Christmas Cracker

    Written by Trisha Ashley

    Narrated by Julia Barrie and Scot Williams

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    About this audiobook

    Curl up this Christmas with this gorgeous festive story from the No.1 bestselling author of The Christmas Invitation

    ‘A warm-hearted and comforting read. Trisha at her best’ Carole Matthews

    This Christmas is about to go off with a bang!

    Things can’t possibly get worse for Tabby. Framed for a crime she didn’t commit, she suddenly finds herself without a job. Then to make matters worse, Tabby’s boyfriend dumps her and gives her cat away to a shelter.

    But rescue comes in the form of kindly Mercy. A master of saving waifs and strays, Mercy wants Tabby to breathe new flair into her ailing cracker business. Together, they’ll save Marwood’s Magical Christmas Crackers.

    But someone has other ideas. Mercy’s nephew Randal thinks Tabby’s a fraudster. Stubborn, difficult and very attractive, her future depends upon winning him round. But it’s that time of the year when miracles really can happen. Standing under the mistletoe, Tabby’s Christmas is set to be one that she will never forget . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateOct 22, 2015
    ISBN9780008162504
    A Christmas Cracker
    Author

    Trisha Ashley

    Trisha Ashley was born in St Helens, Lancashire, and gave up her fascinating but time-consuming hobbies of house-moving and divorce years ago in order to settle in North Wales. She is a Sunday Times bestselling author. For more information about Trisha, please visit her website, www.trishaashley.com, join her Facebook fan page: TrishaAshleyBooks or follow her on Twitter: @trishaashley.

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    • 4/5
      This was a lovely Christmas story. Tabby, after being released from prison creates a new life for herself. Working for a Good Samaritan who runs a Christmas cracker business she finds much happiness... and love!
    • 5/5
      Cosy, christmassy story for dark Winter afternoons.
    • 4/5
      A pleasant light read, about a young woman who helps to revive an ailing Christmas cracker factory. Likeable characters, although rather too much day-to-day detail that adds nothing to the storyline. Not really about Christmas or winter at all other than one scene at the end; the cover image is very misleading. But it made nice, undemanding reading during a busy period, and would be ideal to take on holiday if you like this kind of women's fiction.