Christmas days : 12 stories and 12 feasts for 12 days

Author

Jeanette Winterson

Call Number

• FICTION WINT (OSH)

Edition

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Grove Press, 2016.

Physical Description

292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary

A collection of stories written annually at Christmas includes tales of trees with magical powers, a tinsel baby that talks, flying dogs, philosophical fairies, and a haunted house.

Contents

• Christmas-tide
• Spirit of Christmas
• Mrs. Winterson's mince pies
• Snowmama
• Ruth Rendell's red cabbage
• Dark Christmas
• Kathy Acker's New York custard
• Christmas in New York
• My Christmas Eve smoked salmon and champagne
• Mistletoe bride
• Susie's Christmas Eve gravlax
• O'Brien's first Christmas
• Dad's sherry trifle
• Second-best bed
• Shakespeare and Company's Chinese dumplings
• Christmas cracker
• My mulled wine (or: No more fruit in main courses)
• Ghost story
• Kamila Shamsie's turkey biryani
• Silver frog
• My New Year's Eve cheese crispies
• Lion, the unicorn and me
• My New Year's Day steak sandwich
• Glow-heart
• My Twelfth Night fishcakes.