Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

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They carry positive messages, they even have happy endings, but they made me terribly tearful and they often left me feeling sad. But it’s the spirit of Dickens that chimes in this poignant contemporary story of a ghostly abandoned child who claims to be The Spirit of Christmas. For many years both Mary Portas and Susie Orbach, were married to men before falling in love and later marrying women. Reconciliation is a big theme in this book, and Winterson long journey through addressing her childhood is always in the periphery in her books.

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I was pouring myself a drink when Judy Garland came on the radio singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”. Time past and future roaring around us like a wind, and eternity about us, like angels, like a star. Some of these stories/memoirs are very good in their starkness and factualness: the title piece, about what a foot soldier actually has on him (weights included) at any given time, lends a palpability that makes the emotional freight (fear, horror, guilt) correspond superbly.A Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year 'Packed with charm and beautifully illustrated, it's a book that will solve your gift dilemmas and let you escape the less salubrious aspects of Christmas for a literary wonderland' Stylist Everybody loves a Christmas story. In poignant terms, she explores poverty, loss, and the meaning of giving, instructs you to “ Make pleasing circles of pastry. The stronger of the two, I quite enjoyed the added tension between the narrator’s friend and her husband, who has always been jealous of his wife’s close relationship with the narrator. I enjoyed learning how Britain did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752 and had been 11 days off from everyone else for awhile because of it. It is whimsical and charming and worked better for me than Christmas Cracker though the two are somewhat similar in tone.

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The Silver Frog” is like a cross between Roald Dahl and Neil Gaiman, while “A Ghost Story” is reminiscent of Michelle Paver’s Thin Air.How delightful it was to sit and get lost in a story or two each night before turning out the lights! Here Winterson lets the reader into her life, her hardships, her wife, Suzy Ormond and trying to keep her traditions, Winterson loves Christmas, with a Jew who does not celebrate Christmas. Winterson's subsequent novels explore the boundaries of physicality and the imagination, gender polarities, and sexual identities, and have won several literary awards. Will the physical body that is our home soon be enhanced by biological and neural implants, keeping us fitter, younger, and connected?

Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days

Spooky, inventive, funny, maybe a tad didactic or cloying here and there, Winterson’s mixed bag of fictional treats has a 19th-century charm much needed in the grim 21st. This is New Year's Day and millions of people will be detoxing, dieting and proclaiming Dry January. I’ve always loved that ghost stories for Christmas were a tradition in Victorian England and I think we need to resurrect this.The Lion, the Unicorn and Me” was originally published as an illustrated children’s book in 2009; and is reprinted here as part of a curious Christmas fiction/cookery hybrid, in which a dozen stories are interspersed with seasonal recipes from Winterson’s celebrity friends. But, for me, most of the stories are just okay; and the musings preceding the recipes are too meandering and sometimes repetitive, hence the three stars. She has won a Whitbread Prize for a First Novel, a BAFTA Award for Best Drama, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. And for the icing on the Christmas cake, there are twelve festive recipes from Yuletides past and present. In the memoir, Winterson records that having fled Accrington for Oxford University, she wrote to her mother, asking if it would be possible to come back for Christmas.