Debbie Young

Lighting Up Time: A Short Story for the Winter Solstice (Single Short Story, #1) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When Emma, a young English journalist, is required to babysit in a dark country house on the longest night of the year - the winter solstice, 21st December - she must confront both her fear of the dark and her unresolved grief for her much-loved late Great Aunt Sophie. Where will she find the courage she needs to avoid risking an even greater loss?

This single short story (c. 3000 words) will brighten the darkest night and offer comfort and hope as the days grow longer.

EARLY REVIEWS FOR "LIGHTING UP TIME"

"A delightful story." - Petrea Burchard "Lovely story that perfectly captures that big sister/little sister thing, and Aunt Sophie is a lovely gentle presence throughout - I especially like the way you use scent (perfume, flowers) to evoke her.". Lucienne Boyce

"You had me scared of the dark with you!" Melanie Spiller

"Lovely story and a great, feel-good ending ." - Christina Courtenay, romantic novelist

PLEASE NOTE: This story was originally published online for the winter solstice in 2013, as part of a blog hop. This ebook is a revised and enhanced edition.

OTHER BOOKS BY DEBBIE YOUNG

Debbie Young has previously published two short story collections, "Quick Change" and "Stocking Fillers", as well as the stand-alone Christmas tale "The Owl and the Turkey". Her flash fiction has been included in anthologies for National Flash Fiction Day and the nationwide "Change the Ending" programme celebrating public services.

PRAISE FOR DEBBIE YOUNG'S OTHER SHORT FICTION

"Very subtle, very English, very clever" (Marius Gabriel, novelist)

"Debbie Young's attention to detail brings the extraordinary out of the everyday" (Calum Kerr, founder of National Flash Fiction Day)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hawkesbury Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781502284068
• Artikelnr.: 42212936

Autorenporträt

I write warm, witty, feel-good contemporary fiction inspired by life in the English village where I have lived for nearly thirty years. My work has been shortlisted for the UK Bookbrunch Selfies Awards 2020, given for the best independently-published fiction in the UK. My Sophie Sayers Village Mystery series begins with Best Murder in Show and, when complete, will run the course of a calendar year in the life of a classic English Cotswold village. The sixth, Murder Your Darlings, was published in the spring of 2020, and I am now writing the final book in the series, Murder, Lost and Found. A bonus eighth book is also in the pipeline! I'm also writing a new romantic comedy mystery series set in the staffroom of an English girls' boarding school. St Bride's. The first book, Secrets at St Bride's, was published in August 2019, and the second, Stranger at St Bride's, was published in July 2020. There will be six books in this series following the course of an academic year. If you'd like me to let you know when I'm about to publish a new book, why not join my free Readers' Club? You'll find details on my author website. You'll also receive a free short ebook, The Pride of Peacocks, featuring Sophie Sayers and friends and introducing St Bride's School for Girls.