Christmas Days

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 *

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.

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