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What's Wrong with Father Christmas?
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781915299147
Publisher: Withanee Books
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Father Christmas, Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Père Noël... he has many names and he knows them all, so you can call him as you wish, but this year you'll need to call him back, because he's gone!
With each passing year, more people claim that Christmas is merely an offensive celebration of materialism and nothing more, so Father Christmas has jumped sleigh and left us to it. Without him, 25th December is just another holiday, so grown-ups can work through it and children have nothing to look forward to.
With no collective festive season to join in with, everyone is slowly becoming disconnected and disenchanted. If Clara lets it continue, your Merry Christmas will fade away, and everyone will be tired and miserable each year instead. Father Christmas brings the season together, and little Clara can see how his absence is affecting those around her. She thinks she knows what to do, but she needs help: from her family, from her legacy, and from some new friends her father didn't even believe existed...
Visit England in the mid-1990s, where smartphones don't rule your life, TVs are as deep as they are wide, and Queen Elizabeth still addresses the nation. Then travel to somewhere beyond the Arctic Circle, where Jolly Old St. Nick knows your name and, more importantly, what you'd like for Christmas. You won't even need to think about what you'd like, if you ask for this book...
Follow Clara on her journey as she rides the tension between childhood wonder and adult indifference. Witness her emotional transformation as she discovers a unique perspective through the resistance she faces.
At 284 pages, What's Wrong with Father Christmas? can be read during the whole of December. Since there are 24 chapters, another one can be opened and read each night, right up to Christmas Eve, along with your advent calendar. Available in print and on digital.
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