When a Child Is Born
When a Child Is Born sends Max and her colleagues to Christmas Day in 1066, expecting to observe William the Conqueror's coronation.
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About this story
When a Child Is Born sends Max and her colleagues to Christmas Day in 1066, expecting to observe William the Conqueror's coronation. Their assignment takes a very different turn when Max has to help a woman give birth in a peasant's home.
The contrast is immediate: a celebrated public event gives way to an urgent, private responsibility.
Our view: that change of scale makes this a particularly appealing Christmas premise. Readers looking for a short historical visit can choose it without committing to another novel, while returning readers get Max facing a problem that observation alone cannot solve.
Read it as an individual ebook or in The Long and the Short of It. The site's suggested sequence places it after A Symphony of Echoes. For a brief listening session, Zara Ramm's UK unabridged recording lasts 32 minutes.
The collected volume also contains Roman Holiday and Christmas Present if you want to continue with the early stories.
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- A Symphony of Echoes · St Mary’s
- A Second Chance · St Mary’s
- The Long and the Short of It · Standalone & collections
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- Shorter work in suggested sequence
- First published
- 2013 · publication source ↗
- Audiobook
- Zara Ramm · 32 min
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UK Ebook · Headline Publishing Group
ISBN 9781472264473 · released 1 January 2019
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