Review:
"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)
"Winterson’s winter tales unfailingly succeed in their endeavour to leave you aglow." (Guardian)
"Winterson's prose is often witty and sometimes lyrical . . . The recipes come with intriguing glimpses of the writer, her friends, and their Christmas rituals. Spooky, inventive, funny . . . Winterson's mixed bag of fictional treats has a 19th-century charm much needed in the grim 21st." (Kirkus *Starred Review*)
"A pretty cloth-bound book containing an enchanting collection of recipes and short stories... suitably festive with icicles and plenty of mistletoe." (Laura Powell Sunday Telegraph, Book of the Year)
"A wonderful mix of festive stories and recipes." (Good Housekeeping)
"[A] witty, surprising Christmas garland... Wonderfully imaginative and entertaining... Fans of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit will want to try Mrs Winterson’s Mince Pies. Divine." (Kate Saunders Saga Magazine)
"Christmas Days is a cracker: always sharp, often funny and moving, it gets to the heart of Christmas’s spiritual role in our often unreligious lives, and its account of Winterson’s personal healing is never less than heartwarming." (Sunday Times)
"These funny, beguiling tales...pack some serious literary clout." (Hephzibah Anderson Observer)
"There is a lightness of touch and passages of thoughtful contemplation that befit the season. A perfect stocking filler." (Daily Express, Book of the Year)
"It’s the most unusual and surprising book and I haven’t been able to put it down." (Patti Clare My Weekly)
From the Author:
Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn’t work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She writes regularly for the Guardian. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.
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