In the night the snow came. She awoke on Christmas morning in that
unmistakable light, coming up from the earth and shining between her
curtains.
Celebrate Christmas through the creative minds of a host of authors,
including Beryl Bainbridge, Maeve Binchy, Richmal Crompton, Alice Munro
and Elizabeth von Arnim.
From the delightful consequences of decorating the tree by Stella
Gibbons to a disorientating encounter at 35,000 feet on a Christmas Day
flight by Muriel Spark, an amateur pantomime by Stella Margetson and a
New Year's resolution by Alice Childress, these stories are sure to
fortify you over the Christmas period.
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season explores the joys and
disappointments, pressures and preparations of this time of year from a
female perspective. In keeping with the spirit of the series, the
stories are plucked from different decades of the twentieth century and
penned by familiar as well as forgotten authors writing for both books
and popular magazines.
The British Library Women Writers series is a curated collection of
novels by female authors who enjoyed broad, popular appeal in their day.
In a century during which the role of women in society changed
radically, their fictional heroines highlight women's experience of life
inside and outside the home through the decades in these rich,
insightful and evocative stories.
