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Peaches and the Queen

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Presenting a never-before-published, holiday short story from Regency author Edith Layton!Christmas is coming to Victorian London. A poor boy living with his milliner sister in a marginal part of town discovers his cat is missing. His old dog can't live without the cat, so he searches—and hears that the Queen has kidnapped his cat! Queen Victoria's favorite moggie strayed, and her minions scooped up the wrong cat—or so the boy and his sister think.This Christmas novella tells how an earnest young Beefeater, his world-weary superior, and one of the wiliest criminals in London each try to find the right cat without disturbing the old queen, win the boy's cat back—and woo the pretty sister—before the Queen leaves London for her Christmas holiday.From the servants at the palace and the Queen's own chambers, to Billingsgate and the mudlarks' favorite taverns, the adventures are many among the high- and low-life of Victorian London.


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Publisher: Untreed Reads

Kindle Book

  • Release date: November 30, 2015

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781611878325
  • File size: 599 KB
  • Release date: November 30, 2015

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781611878325
  • File size: 600 KB
  • Release date: November 30, 2015

Formats

Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

subjects

Fiction Romance

Languages

English

Presenting a never-before-published, holiday short story from Regency author Edith Layton!Christmas is coming to Victorian London. A poor boy living with his milliner sister in a marginal part of town discovers his cat is missing. His old dog can't live without the cat, so he searches—and hears that the Queen has kidnapped his cat! Queen Victoria's favorite moggie strayed, and her minions scooped up the wrong cat—or so the boy and his sister think.This Christmas novella tells how an earnest young Beefeater, his world-weary superior, and one of the wiliest criminals in London each try to find the right cat without disturbing the old queen, win the boy's cat back—and woo the pretty sister—before the Queen leaves London for her Christmas holiday.From the servants at the palace and the Queen's own chambers, to Billingsgate and the mudlarks' favorite taverns, the adventures are many among the high- and low-life of Victorian London.


Expand title description text
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Untreed Reads

    Kindle Book
    Release date: November 30, 2015

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781611878325
    File size: 599 KB
    Release date: November 30, 2015

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781611878325
    File size: 600 KB
    Release date: November 30, 2015

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
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