Allen & Unwin The Winter Baby book Fiction English Paperback 400 pages

A heartwarming Christmas story - a brilliant and brand new novel from Britain's best-loved saga author

Alone at Christmas. Will she find somewhere to call home? The perfect heartwarming Christmas saga for fans of Dilly Court, Katie Flynn and Call the Midwife.No more than eighteen years old, alone and heavily pregnant, Kathleen stumbles through the snow, desperate for somewhere to rest her weary head.As the Christmas bells chime around her, she glimpses a man through the haze, before collapsing into his arms.On a farm in the beautiful Kent countryside, Jessie and her family take Kathleen in as their own. But little do they know that there's a baby on the way . . .As the years pass, Home Farm becomes more than just a place for Kathleen and her daughter to rest - it becomes their salvation. But will Kathleen find the family she's been searching for?

Sheila Newberry was born in Suffolk and spent a lot of time there both before and during the war. She wrote her first 'book' before she was ten - all sixty pages of it - in purple ink. Her family has certainly been her inspiration and she has been published most of her adult life. She spent forty years living in Kent with her husband John on a smallholding, and has nine children and twenty-two lively grandchildren. They retired back to Suffolk where Sheila still lives today.