The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost Fair

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An amazing and captivating, curl-up-on-the-sofa debut about a magical frost fair and the lasting power of friendship.
Its a cold winter during the Great Frost of 1683. Thomasina and Anne are the best of friends, one running her fathers sweet shop and the other the apprentice at the family apothecary together they sell their goods on the frozen River Thames. When a family tragedy turns Thomasinas world upside down, she is drawn to a mysterious conjuror and the enchanted frost fair.

But soon the world of Father Winter threatens to claim everything she holds dear. Will they be able to solve the magical mysteries that surround them . . .

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Natasha Hastings was selected to join The London Library's Emerging Writers Programme in 2019. Currently working as a fundraiser, she started developing The Frost Fair while studying History at Cambridge University, where she focused on gender and mental illness. She became determined, while exploring these topics, to have the lives of working women form the heartbeat of The Frost Fair. Alex T. Smith is an award-winning illustrator of children's books including the Claude series. He is a World Book Day Illustrator.