The Secret Christmas
a measham hall story
$30.33
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2025
Summary
The Secret Christmas at Measham Hall
December, 1653, England. The Puritan parliament has outlawed the celebration of Christmas, and while shops must stay open every day, the theatres have been forced to close their doors.
The Hawthorne family have been allowed to return to their ancestral home, Measham Hall, just in time for Christmas. This is only after Sir Nicholas Hawthorne has reluctantly agreed to take an oath of loyalty to the Commonwealth. When a theatre troupe beggin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780715655573 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0715655574 |
| Series: | Measham Hall |
| Author: | Anna Abney |
| Publisher: | Duckworth Books |
| Imprint: | Duckworth |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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‘It’s rare for a historical novel to feel so timely’ Jo Baker, Sunday Times bestselling author of Longbourn
About The Author
Anna Abney
Anna Abney (also published under the name Madeline Dewhurst) has taught English Literature and Creative Writing at the Open University and Queen Mary, University of London. She wrote her PhD on the seventeenth-century writer, Margaret Cavendish, under the supervision of Lisa Jardine at Queen Mary. Her writing includes fiction, journalism and drama. Anna was born and raised in London and lived in Ireland, North and South, for thirteen years before returning to the Big Smoke. She now lives in rural Kent.
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