A Snow Garden and Other Stories by Rachel Joyce is a collection of interlinked short stories by Rachel Joyce, set around Christmastime.
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Book Blurb
This collection contains seven linked stories set in the Christmas holidays – all as funny, joyous, poignant and memorable as Christmas should be:
A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping couldn’t feel less like wishing glad tidings to all men. Ducking out of the rain she finds herself in the sort of shop she would never normally visit.
The Marriage Manual: Christmas Eve. Two parents endeavour to construct their son’s Christmas present from a DIY kit and in the process find themselves deconstructing their marriage.
Christmas at the Airport: A glitch in the system, travellers stranded and all sorts of lives colliding in the face of a sudden birth…
The Boxing Day Ball: Maureen has never been out with the local girls before. Who knew that a disco in the Village Hall could be life-changing?
A Snow Garden: Two little boys, dumped with their divorced father for his share of the Christmas holidays and none of them with a clue how to enjoy it.
I’ll Be Home for Christmas: The most famous boy in the world comes home hoping to escape the madness with a normal family Christmas.
Trees: As if Christmas wasn’t wearing enough, now his elderly parent is asking for a hole in the ground … Father and son break old habits and plant a tree to mark the start of the new year.
About the Author
Rachel Joyce is a British author best known for writing novels, many of which have become international bestsellers. She has also written over twenty original afternoon plays and adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4, including all the Bronte novels.
Rachel Joyce books always seem to be received well by both readers and critics. Her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, won several literary awards including:
- The Specsavers National Book Awards New Writer of the Year (2012)
- The Goodreads Choice Awards for Fiction (2012)
- The Desmond Elliott Prize for Debut Fiction (2012)
- The Commonwealth Book Prize for Best First Book (2013)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Rachel Joyce also won The Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award (2017) for The Music Shop.
Rachel Joyce books often explore themes of human connection, love, loss, and the power of ordinary people to make extraordinary changes in their lives.
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