A perfect Christmas book for December – Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson
Christmas Days – the blurb
Everybody loves a Christmas story. The tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas is a tradition of celebration, sharing and giving. And what better way to do that than with a story?
Read these stories by the fire, in the snow, traveling home for the holidays. Give them to friends, wrap them up for someone you love, read them aloud, read them alone, read them together. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic.
There are ghosts here and jovial spirits. Chances at love and tricks with time.
There is frost and icicles, mistletoe and sledges. There’s a cat and a dog and a solid silver frog. There’s a Christmas cracker with a surprising gift inside.
There’s a haunted house and a SnowMama. There are Yuletides and holly wreaths. Three Kings. And a merry little Christmas time.
And for the icing on the Christmas cake, there are twelve festive recipes from Yuletides past and present. Red cabbage, gravlax, turkey biryani, sherry trifle, Mrs Winterson’s mince pies and more.
All I want for Christmas
Christmas Days has everything you could possibly want in a Christmas book. For a start it’s absolutely beautiful. The 12 short stories are perfect for time pushed Christmas reading, the recipes are fuss free with nostalgia, reflection and good will a plenty. I really recommend it as a gift as truly there is something for all. I loved Winterson’s conversational style of writing and I will now definitely hunt out her back catalog to see what her full blown novels offer. The short stories themselves are eclectic but all very Christmassy, unlike certain previous book club Christmas offerings. And what is it about Christmas and ghost stories? Not all the stories are ghostly but you could imagine all of them as brilliant Christmas telly. My favorite tale of them all was The Mistletoe Bride, but I loved The Glow Heart and Dark Christmas. Oh sod it, I loved them all, well it is Christmas.
