The Black Sheep

By Julie Cohen

Ten-year-old Liza and Lee Haven are identical twins, but they couldn’t be more different. Lee is the good twin, and Liza is the bad. And when Liza is selected to be a sheep in the horrific nightmare that is the annual Christmas Pageant, she knows she has to do something to shake up the residents of Stoneguard.

A wry, funny standalone short story from the world of Getting Away With It, a novel by Julie Cohen published by Headline Review.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Julie Cohen
• Release date: Jul 21, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466015845

Julie Cohen

Julie Cohen spent most of her childhood with her nose in a book and today still reads everything in sight! She gives workshops for fiction writers all over the UK and the US, and belongs to the Romantic Novelists’ Association in the UK and Romance Writers of America. Her hobbies include walking, travelling, listening to loud music, watching films and eating far too much popcorn. Julie lives in Berkshire, England with her family. Visit her website at: www.julie-cohen.com

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About The Black Sheep

Ten-year-old Liza and Lee Haven are identical twins, but they couldn’t be more different. Lee is the good twin, and Liza is the bad. And when Liza is selected to be a sheep in the horrific nightmare that is the annual Christmas Pageant, she knows she has to do something to shake up the residents of Stoneguard.

A wry, funny standalone short story from the world of Getting Away With It, by Julie Cohen.

You can find out more about Getting Away With It, and read a note from the author, at the end of this ebook.

Praise for Julie Cohen:

‘Warm, fun and totally addictive. I loved it!’ Miranda Dickinson

‘Wonderfully escapist...intriguing, thought-provoking and sexy.’ Katie Fforde

The Black Sheep

Let me give you an example of my relationship with the good people of Stoneguard. I lived there for eighteen years, so there are lots of examples to choose from. But some memories are stickier than others; they fossilise in your mind and represent, or seem to represent, everything that you were thinking and feeling in that moment and in all the moments leading up to and after that one.

It was at Christmas, long before the Horrid Christmas but horrible enough in its own way, maybe even the Christmas which determined my feelings about all my Christmases to come.

Ma Gamble was the owner of the Wholefood Emporium, and a former Major in the British Army. She had no family of her own, but she marshalled the entire town as if they were her troops. Our vicar, Mr McGregor, was an ancient wizened man, who could hardly see through his spectacles, let alone through the back of his head; Ma Gamble had long assumed the role of moral protector of all of Stoneguard, and the Emporium was

Reviews for The Black Sheep

[Salma · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Love it and lived Liza the lil devil .. Can you add the full book tho ?