Rosie Goodwin 
The Blessed Child 
The perfect read from Britain’s best-loved saga writer

A perfect saga treat from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Mother’s Grace, for fans of Dilly Court, Katie Flynn and Catherine Cookson.





‘A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters’ Margaret Dickinson





‘Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas’ Lyn Andrews





‘The new Catherine Cookson’ Coventry Evening Telegraph






Wednesday’s child is full of woe . . .





Warwickshire, 1865.



Nessie Carson will do anything to keep her family together after her mother is killed, her father abandons them and they are evicted from their cosy little Nuneaton home. She and her brothers and sisters take on jobs as live-in assistants to a local undertaker. She is soon entwined in fortunes of her employer, Andre, who is forced to live a lie, and the local doctor – someone she’s attracted to but can never have. But even in the darkest of times, and saddest of places, when you’re as spirited as Nessie Carson, there is light, love and the promise of happiness if you’re only brave enough to search for it . . .





The Blessed Child
is the fourth book in Rosie Goodwin’s Days of the Week Collection. Why not try the rest,
Mothering Sunday
, The Little Angel,
A Mother’s Grace
, A Maiden’s Voyage, A Precious Gift and Time to Say Goodbye?

About the author

Rosie Goodwin is the four-million-copy bestselling author of more than forty novels. She is the first author in the world to be allowed to follow three of Catherine Cookson’s trilogies with her own sequels. Having worked in the social services sector for many years, then fostered a number of children, she is now a full-time novelist. She is one of the top 50 most borrowed authors from UK libraries and has sold over four million copies across her career. Rosie lives in Nuneaton, the setting for many of her books, with her husband and their beloved dogs.