Christmas with the Queen

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Christmas with the Queen
by Hazel Gaynor

ISBN: 9780063276215
Softcover, new

Brief Description:
‘Tis the season! The Crown meets When Harry Met Sally in the latest
heartwarming historical novel from Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb,
bestselling authors of Last Christmas in Paris, Meet Me in Monaco, and
Three Words for Goodbye. December 1952. While the young Queen Elizabeth II
finds her feet as the new monarch, she must also find the right words to
continue the tradition of her late father’s Christmas Day radio broadcast.
But even traditions must evolve with the times, and the queen faces a
postwar Britain hungry for change. As preparations begin for the royal
Christmas at Sandringham House in Norfolk, old friends–Jack Devereux and
Olive Carter–are unexpectedly reunited by the occasion. Olive, a single
mother and aspiring reporter at the BBC, leaps at the opportunity to cover
the holiday celebration, but even a chance encounter with the queen doesn’t
go as planned and Olive wonders if she will ever be taken seriously. Jack,
a recently widowed chef, reluctantly takes up a new role in the royal
kitchens at Sandringham. Lacking in purpose and direction, Jack has
abandoned his dream to have his own restaurant, but his talents are soon
noticed and while he might not believe in himself, others do, and a chance
encounter with an old friend helps to reignite the spark of his passion and
ambition. As Jack and Olive’s paths continue to cross over the following
five Christmases, they grow ever closer. Yet Olive carries the burden of a
heavy secret that threatens to destroy everything. Christmas Day, December
1957. As the nation eagerly awaits the Queen’s first televised Christmas
speech, there is one final gift for the Christmas season to deliver…