A Girl in Winter

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It begins: "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveller. Memories of her first visit to England, a girlhood interlude with her penpal, Robin Fennel, contrast bitterly with her current lonely situation, but when fate causes Robin to resurface, memory and expectation play their usual sly tricks. Bags Planning a wedding is one of the most stressful times for the main people involved and it is so important to get things just right.

While we’re never explicitly told where Katherine is from, and what might have happened to her family, there are suggestions that she has suffered some trauma. The Chronicles of Narnia are a classic of children's literature for a reason, but particularly fitting for our winter books reading list is the first book published in the series, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, when Narnia is stuck in frozen eternal winter and four children—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy set out to save the land.Gifts It is party time for your princess and she needs sparkle and we have lots of unusual gifts for her! Our shoes all have extra padded in socks and adjustable fastenings to ensure a comfortable and secure fit all day long. But Eva is getting sick of being made to pose in stupid mum-and-daughter matching outfits for sponsored posts.

What’s it like to grow up online and have every tantrum, every spot – even your first period – broadcast to hundreds of thousands of followers? Ali Smith’s shapeshifting Winter casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love. We selected styles that children love – ballet shoes with sparkly pink crystals, butterfly’s in blue and mermaids matching necklace and earrings to name a few. Why such hardness of heart, why such a celebration of the static economy of the closed, insular, self-sufficient soul?

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