The Little Christmas Kitchen (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Her shoes pinched, her back ached, her eyes were sore from holding back tears and one of her hands was constantly frozen because she’d dropped a glove somewhere between Dean Street and the Choccywoccydoodah shop and she was alternating with the one she had left. After a spate of brusque rejections she’d had to go into Liberty to look at beautiful things while she warmed up. But after circulating the stationery department a number of times she started to get suspect looks as if she was a shoplifter and left, stepping out into Carnaby Street where even the lavish Christmas lights couldn’t cheer her up. Deciding to cut her losses and go back to Ella’s and open one of the bottles of Bollinger, she started to schlep her way back through the slushy snow. This time she didn’t see the picture-postcard views of snow-capped London but instead noticed the pile of rubbish dusted with white outside the shop where she bought a soggy cheese and tomato sandwich, the half-frozen overflowing manhole of a burst water main, a tramp with a dog shivering from the cold who thanked her with big pale eyes as she handed him half her lunch.
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