The Christmas Eve ghost

By Shirley Hughes

Subjects: Christmas, fiction, Great Britain in fiction, Single-parent families, Great britain, history, fiction, England, fiction, Christmas, Single-parent families in fiction, Laundry in fiction, Prejudices, Historical fiction, Christmas in fiction, Prejudices in fiction, Christmas stories, Fiction, Children's fiction, England in fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Laundry, Prejudices, fiction

Description: In 1930s Liverpool, England, Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed mother, who works long hours doing other people's washing, and even though she sometimes must leave the children alone in the house, she cautions them not to speak to the O'Rileys next door, who go to a different church.