TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gill, Elizabeth,
TI  - The guardian angel
T2  - Weardale sagas
SN  - 9781786482617
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Quercus
KW  - Confectioners
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Single women
KW  - Ex-convicts
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - 1855. Alice Lee, middle-aged and unmarried, is the only volunteer when the minister asks his congregation to help young Zebediah Bailey. Zeb is in prison for a ghastly crime, and the townspeople would rather forget than forgive this local lad who lost his way. But Alice dutifully writes to him every week, sending him sweets from the little shop that is her livelihood: Alice Lee's Confectionary. She won't admit she's lonely, but since her parents' deaths, making and selling sweets has become her whole world. Then Zeb comes out of gaol, and Alice agrees to take him in, much to the horror of her neighbours. What develops between them is unexpected - intense and bittersweet. It could be a new beginning or else the undoing of them both
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