A Sixpence for Christmas

Gracie Hart

HEAD off to Leeds in the final years of the 19^th century for the second book in Gracie Hart’s heartwarming saga series which harnesses all the warmth and goodness of a tasty home-baked cake. 

In 1895, kind and thoughtful Meg Fairfax just wants her family to be together at Christmas. But her mother Agnes’s illness gets worse every day and her sister Sarah is off doing God knows what. 

But 18-year-old Meg can no longer work at the bakery business she had built up from nothing after Ted Lund, the miserly owner of another local bakery, falsely blackened her name. 

Now, she has to barter for food at the shops and she doesn’t know how they will cope. Luckily, she knows Frankie Pearson, the owner of a local patisserie who has loved Meg since the first time he saw her and is now offering her a job. 

But Meg reckons she isn’t suited for fancy cakes and frills. All she wants is to feed her family and make them proud but, as winter takes hold, it feels like everything is stacked against her. 

Can she make a success of herself and her life before Christmas? 

Leeds-born Hart (pictured left), who now lives in the Yorkshire Dales, knows the winning formula when it comes to northern sagas and this tale of love and survival – which includes with some of Meg’s delicious Christmas recipes – is a Yorkshire-flavoured treat!

(Simon & Schuster, paperback, £7.99)