“tackle with themes of female empowerment, heroines that reflect reality, outgrowing friendships and what it’s like trying to prop up struggling parents.” Woman’s Way I thought I best check in on the Facebook group and see how everyone else was getting on, many were like me and had either just started or hadn’t started yet….phew! But time flew past! After the books being delivered and doing my day job in the office I realised I still hadn’t opened the book 🤦🏻♀️….not again! It was still free flowing so people could enjoy reading without the pressure of a strict deadline, and I kept the optional zoom chats available at the end to discuss it if we wanted but they were not compulsory.Īfter leaving the first book until the last minute I wanted to start this one sooner especially with the time being shorter. With the first title we had 6 weeks to read but after checking in many people were finished after 2 to 3 weeks so we decided we would try this one as a monthly title with it being over 4 weeks. When he wakes up on Christmas Day he is full of excitement, and buys the biggest turkey in the shop for the Cratchit family before spending the day with his nephew, full of the joys of Christmas.Published date: October 2017 by Usborne publishing The ghosts’ journey through time teaches Scrooge the error of his ways. The ghost then takes him to see his nephew Fred’s Christmas celebrations - which he had been invited to, but rebuffed.įinally, The Ghost of Christmas Future terrifies Scrooge by showing him visions of his own death… At Bob Cratchit’s house Scrooge sees Tiny Tim, who is very ill, but full of spirit.
The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge his clerk, Bob Cratchit’s family. The Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge on a journey through Christmases from his past, taking Scrooge to see himself as an unhappy child and a young man more in love with money than his fiancé. When Scrooge gets home, he is visited by the ghost of his old business partner Jacob Marley – and then by three ghosts! They are the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future. One cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge is unkind to the people who work for him, then refuses to give to charity, and then is rude to his nephew when he invites him to spend Christmas with him.
A Christmas Carol is a play about a mean-spirited and selfish old man, Ebenezer Scrooge, who hates Christmas.
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