{"product_id":"a-desolate-christmas-faye-godwin-9781701289932","title":"A Desolate Christmas","description":"\u003cb\u003eLena Phillips has everything she could want: a father who adores her, a mother who spends hours reading to her, a nursery full of the most wonderful toys.\u003c\/b\u003e Lena even has Sally Goodman, a doting governess. Lena is only four years old, and she's the happiest little girl in the whole wide world. As Christmas approaches, Lena grows more and more excited - unaware that \u003cb\u003ea dark plot is brewing, and she will be caught in its tendrils. \u003c\/b\u003eGoverness Sally Goodman has a dark secret, and Ella - a parlour-maid who's gained Sally's trust - is determined to exploit that weakness. \u003cb\u003eInfluenced by her criminal brothers, Ella persuades Sally to leave Lena in her care for an afternoon just before Christmas. What happens next changes Lena's life forever. \u003c\/b\u003eSold to a cruel couple in the slums of Victorian London, \u003cb\u003eLena is plunged into a world of begging, stealing, starving, and abuse.\u003c\/b\u003e Lena's family searches in vain for her, and finally in despair, they give up. \u003cb\u003eEvery Christmas that follows is progressively colder and more hopeless than the first.\u003c\/b\u003e Lena loses hope that anyone will want her - except a boy with sad grey eyes. \u003cb\u003eA boy who needs her as much as she needs him...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Faye Godwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1701289938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781701289932\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Faye Godwin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088714445055,"sku":"9781701289932","price":10.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9adabd2d-7aaf-4783-bbd7-34aa3a91c724.jpg?v=1769106238","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-desolate-christmas-faye-godwin-9781701289932","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}