Susan Breen

Merry (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A mother's valiant efforts to bring her family the joy of Christmas go haywire when she finds herself haunted by the angry ghost of Charles Dickens. This sparkling, cozy novel is perfect for readers of Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow and anyone who looks forward to watching It's a Wonderful Life each December! Merry Bingham used to love Christmas-until she started worrying all the time about family, money, and death. The only thing that continues to bring her joy is reading from her heirloom edition of A Christmas Carol, autographed by Charles Dickens himself and passed down through five generations of her family. Now, as she waits for the results of the medical tests that will tell her whether this Christmas season will be her last, Merry prepares to give her book to the next generation. Except none of her three children wants it. Merry refuses to surrender Christmas or Dickens without a fight, so she sells the book and uses the money to take her family to London. She will fill them with Christmas joy even if she has to cram it down their throats. But the harder Merry pushes, the worse everything gets. Her children erupt into vicious arguments, her gentle husband stops talking to her, her deluxe rental apartment is not what was promised. Oh, and she keeps seeing the ghost of Charles Dickens around town-and he is not happy with her. Fans of family stories, classic literature, and holiday season magic will adore Merry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CROOKED LANE BOOKS
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798892421942
• Artikelnr.: 72673472

Autorenporträt

Susan Breen is the award-winning author of The Fiction Class and the Maggie Dove mystery series. She teaches novel-writing at Gotham Writers and is on the faculty of several conferences, among them the NY Write to Pitch Conference and the Cape Cod Writers Conference. Her stories have been published widely, most recently in an anthology relating to the environment called Crimes Against Nature. She started collecting books by Charles Dickens when she went to a book fair in college and discovered a musty old edition of A Christmas Carol. She has had the experience of traveling to London at Christmas time with her husband and three grown children, but nothing that happens in this novel happened on that trip. For the most part. And she has two happy little cockapoos, but neither one has tried to talk to her. So far.