Festive Spirits: Three Christmas Stories

I have been reading a short story each day.It says it has 80 pages when in fact it’s 68. The rest are taken up advertising her other books.Lots love Kate Atkinson's books. I thought I’d try with h...

A lovely few short stories, very festive and fun. I love the way Kate Atkinson writes....

Kate Atkinson is one of my favorite writers. I also love Christmas-themed books. Fiction for Christmas is limited primarily to romance novels (I don't read them), mysteries (mostly cozies that are not...

Anyone who knows Kate Atkinson's work won't be surprised that the stories in this slim collection aren't the sort of holiday tale meant to give you the warm fuzzies, but they're rewarding in their way...

Festive Spirits is a collection of three Christmas-themed short stories by popular British author, Kate Atkinson. In Lucy’s Day, a heretofore atheist mother finds something incredibly moving about s...

The short stories here highlights how the festive season can actually be painful, especially when we’d gone through a hard year. It’s the time of year that often makes us contemplative - how’d I...

My first Kate Atkinson and a positive introduction. This isn't a cheery Christmas collection but I enjoyed it a lot. I particularly liked the final sorry - Small Mercies - which highlighted how lonely...

Marvellous. Short and perfectly formed. ...

Festive Spirits is a beautiful little book containing three stories by the incomparable Kate Atkinson, each with a Christmas theme. Whilst the volume of stories is slim, and the stories themselves are...

A slim collection of three stories set during the festive period. In general, they explore the more melancholic side of the holidays, when feelings of loneliness and dissatisfaction are often heighten...