The cheerful poverty of the Cratchit family in A Christmas Carol, is a sure-fire tear-jerker. At one public reading by Dickens in Boston, there were "so many pocket handkerchiefs it looked as if a snowstorm had gotten into the hall"—Sunday Express It has it all: a spooky ghost story, a heartwarming redemption and a great plot with a satisfyingly ... Read morehappy ending—The Times A story which, perhaps more than any other, sums up the spirit of the British Christmas—Sunday Telegraph One of the great achievements of British culture—D.J. Taylor But that story endures and retains the power to move us because it speaks to the human heart, and gives us hope when hope is fading—Tony Parsons, Mirror Show Less