Carol Ann Duffy: Frost Fair [2019] hardback Condition:New She's grown up preparing for

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Carol Ann Duffy: Frost Fair [2019] hardback Condition:New She's grown up preparing forIt is a snowy London day in The Great Winter of 1683. We follow our bold narrator as she explores 'the town on the Thames', a thousand tents and dancing fires lit on the frozen water with jubilant residents and lively festive revelry. All is a fete upon the ice as she sees jugglers, dancing bears, palm readers and even a merry wedding. Her journey leads her to meet many new companions with whom to spend a starry night upon the river, where they sleep