Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficultdomestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now the circumstances havechanged but... » 

Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficultdomestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now the circumstances havechanged but for women today Christmas is still a time of joys garnered againstthe odds. We have moved on from stables and mangers to supermarkets andmicrowaves and palm fronds shepherds and lambs have given way to a fat redsuited man a spangled conifer and wellstuffed stockings. In this anthologyreflecting the experiences of more than fifty women at Christmas Jenny Eclairrubs shoulders with Agatha Christie Laurie Graham Nancy Mitford SueTownsend Stella Gibbons Mrs Beeton Clare Boylan and many others. Curl upwith a tantalizing volume that gives full reign to the seditious humourpeculiar discomforts and exquisite social tortures of the season. «