Through the pages of this beautiful book, the traditions, memories and feelings associated with Christmas are evoked. Eliane Wilson has sensitively chosen a number of British and American writers (and a few from Europe) to present the different aspects, sometimes in prose, sometimes in verse, and at other times through a carol complete with its musical setting.

Dorothy Boux has added a fresh dimension to transcribe every page in calligraphy, embellishing each with an original drawing and making subtle use of colour to convey the different moods of each passage.

The selection contains traditional and modern material from Shakespeare, Milton, Dickens, Betjeman, Emerson, Longfellow, Robert Frost and many others, some movingly familiar, others which might come as a pleasant discovery for the reader.