Someone Special

Judith Saxton

Mar 2012 · Random House

About this ebook

On 21 April 1926, three baby girls are born. In North Wales, Hester Coburn, a farm labourer's wife, gives birth to Nell, while in Norwich, in an exclusive nursing home, Anna is born to rich and pampered Constance Radwell. And in London, Elizabeth, Duchess of York, has her first child, Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary.

The future looks straightforward for all three girls, yet before Nell is eight she and Hester are forced to leave home, finding work with a travelling fair. Anna's happy security is threatened by her father's infidelities and her mother's jealousy, and the Princess's life is irrevocably altered by her uncle's abdication.

Set in the hills of Wales and the rolling Norfolk countryside, the story follows Nell and Anna through their wartime adolescence into young womanhood as they struggle to overcome their problems, while watching 'their' Princess move towards her great destiny. Only when they finally meet do the two girls understand that each of them is 'someone special'.

About the author

Judy Turner was born in Norwich, England in 1936. She wrote historical and romantic fiction under the pseudonyms Katie Flynn and Judith Saxton. She wrote more than 90 books during her lifetime including A Liverpool Lass, In Time for Christmas, Christmas at Tuppenny Corner, A Mother's Love, and A Christmas Gift. After being diagnosed with ME (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) in 1996, her daughter Holly began assisting her in her writing. She died on January 1, 2019 at the age of 82.