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Authors: Trisha Ashley

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BOOK: The Magic of Christmas

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Forget the Jimmy Choos,
Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues
is the only accessory you need for spring 2012…

When eccentric Tansy Poole suddenly finds herself the newest proprietor of Bright’s Shoes, a run-down shoe shop tucked away in the idyllic Lancashire village of Sticklepond, she is inspired to take the business in a new direction. And soon, Cinderella’s Slippers opens to the public-promising to provide the footwear to make any fairytale wedding come true.

Stocking everything a bride would want to walk down the aisle in, from exquisite satin pumps to quirky vertiginous heels, Tansy’s shop soon expands to carry shoe-shaped wedding favours, bridesmaid gifts and even sumptuous artisan chocolate shoes. It’s the dream destination for anyone who loves shoes!

If only everything in her personal life could be as fulfilling — but with a fiancé unwilling to name the day until she fits into a size 8 wedding dress, not to mention disturbing family revelations having recently come to light, Tansy takes refuge in making Cinderella’s Slippers a success. Her hard work pays off when word of mouth attracts customers from far and wide.

But one man isn’t thrilled by the stream of eager shoe lovers thronging to Cinderella’s Slippers … Shakespearian actor Ivo Hawksley, resident of the cottage next to the shop, is troubled by a dark secret in his past and has come to Sticklepond to nurse his own broken heart, not have his peace shattered by the trill of ‘Here comes the bride’ every time the shop door opens!

However, Ivo is shaken by the realisation that he and Tansy have a link in their past and soon, they both find out how secrets shared can make a
very
strong bond indeed …

Don’t miss the brand new book from The Queen of Yummy Lit, guaranteed to put a spring in your step.

Chocolate Shoes and Wedding Blues — due to be published by Avon spring 2012

ISBN —
978-1-84756-277-7

About the Author

Trisha lives in beautiful North Wales, together with the neurotic Border Collie recently foisted onto her by her student son and an equally neurotic but also vain, bad-tempered and chancy Muse. Her previous book,
Twelve Days of Christmas
, was a
Sunday Times
bestseller in 2010.

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Other Books by the same author:

Sowing Secrets

A Winter’s Tale

Wedding Tiers

Chocolate Wishes

Twelve Days of Christmas

Copyright

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.

AVON

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins
Publishers
2011

THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS. Copyright © Trisha Ashley 2011. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, 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 e-books.

Trisha Ashley asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN-13: 978-1-84756-116-9

EPub Edition © AUGUST 2011 ISBN: 978-1-84756-301-9

About the Publisher

Australia

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Canada

HarperCollins Canada