All Wrapped Up
By Holly Smale
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Harriet Manners knows a lot about Christmas:
- She knows that every year Santa climbs down 91.8 million chimneys.
- She knows that Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was almost definitely a girl.
- She knows that the first artificial Christmas trees were made out of goose feathers.
But this Christmas is extra special for Harriet, because four days ago she had her First Ever Kiss.
Now she just needs to work out what's supposed to happen next . . .
A romantic festive treat from the internationally best-selling award-winning author of the GEEK GIRL series. Also includes a BONUS previously unpublished GEEK GIRL short story TEAM GEEK!
Holly Smale
Holly Smale was unexpectedly spotted by a top London modeling agency at the age of fifteen and spent the following two years falling over on catwalks, going bright red, and breaking things she couldn't afford to replace. By the time she had graduated from Bristol University with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Shakespeare, she had given up modeling and set herself on the path to becoming a full-time writer. Geek Girl was the #1 bestselling young adult fiction title in the UK in 2013. It was shortlisted for several major awards, including the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Holly currently lives in London, England.
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All Wrapped Up - Holly Smale
Some glittering reviews for the GEEKGIRLbranding.tif books:
"Loved Geek Girl. Wise, funny and true, with a proper nerd heroine you’re laughing with as much as at. Almost"
James Henry, writer of Smack the Pony and Green Wing
"I would highly recommend Geek Girl to anyone who likes a good laugh and enjoys a one-of-a-kind story"
Mia, Guardian Children’s Books website
Smart, sassy and very funny
Bookseller
Brilliantly funny and fresh … A feel-good satisfying gem
Books for Keeps
There’s laughter and tears in this hilarious roller-coaster story
Julia Eccleshare
Simultaneously hilarious and heart-warming. Everyone should read this book
We Love This Book
Pure fun
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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2015
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Copyright © Holly Smale 2015
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Cover typography © Mary Kate McDevitt;
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Holly Smale asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.
A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.
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Source ISBN: 9780008163440
Ebook Edition © 2015 ISBN: 9780008165635
Version: 2015-12-08
For all my geek girls and boys,
wherever you are.
Merry Christmas.
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Read on for more geekery …
Read on for a bonus Geek Girl story …
Acknowledgements
About the Author
About the Publisher
celebrate [cel-e-brate] verb
To observe or commemorate an event
To mark with festivities
To proclaim or make public
To praise widely
To perform appropriate rites and ceremonies
ORIGIN from the Latin celebrare – to honour
imgmissingMy name is Harriet Manners, and I love Christmas.
You can tell I love Christmas because I start celebrating it in the middle of August.
I do it subtly, obviously.
A tinsel brooch here, a life-size plastic reindeer with flashing nose there.
"Harriet," my stepmother said this year when I wheeled it into the hallway.
"Annabel, I replied, making my face as angelic as possible.
Did you know that the majority of male reindeers lose their antlers in winter? That means that Rudolph was almost definitely a girl. Don’t you think we should be reminded of this every day of the year?"
Annabel laughed and put the reindeer back in the garden shed, along with my ‘Jingle Cat – Meowy Christmas’ album and the cinnamon incense sticks I’d hidden behind the radiators.
So I think the answer was no.
In September I constructed a battle of pink versus white sugar mice on the living room carpet, and October was spent sticking thick wads of cotton wool along the edge of every external windowsill so it looked like it had just been snowing.
"Harriet," Annabel repeated, which means November was spent cleaning it all off again.
Now it’s the middle of December and I’m finally allowed to start marking the occasion, I’m so excited I feel like a shaken can: except instead of soda, Christmas is fizzing straight out.
I have made a neat list of my favourite Christmas animals, and my favourite Christmas foods, and my favourite Christmas songs, and my favourite Christmas lists.
I’ve created a gift plan with associated shopping map, and a detailed Q and A to hand out on Christmas morning so I can accurately deduce how much people really like their presents.
Together, my best friend and I found a traditional mince pie recipe from a Tudor recipe book written in 1543 and cooked them perfectly. (Then threw them all away, because there’s a reason mince pies are now vegetarian.)
I’ve made Christmassy pie charts and PowerPoints, line graphs and crosswords.
I’ve even had a couple of epic festive-themed fights with my parents, because laughing at a letter I wrote to Father Christmas when I was five years old is just not entering into the appropriate spirit of things.
And – most importantly – I’ve decorated.
In fact, thanks to school having just broken up for the Christmas holidays, my house is starting to look like something Santa would visit incognito out of sheer embarrassment.
I have Christmasified everything.
With barely contained happiness, I have glitterised and spangalised, frostificated and shimmerised. I have sparklificated and made up a whole range of festive verbs and written them in my notepad.
But it doesn’t make much of a difference.
Because four days ago, in a dark TV studio in the middle of London, a beautiful model boy held my hand.
I had my First Ever Kiss.
And now it doesn’t matter how much sparkle I spray, or glitter I drop: it feels like I’m decorating from the inside out.
The shiniest thing here this Christmas is me.
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