Christmas Past
Christmas Past brings Max, Leon and Matthew together for a family Christmas at St Mary's.
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About this story
Christmas Past brings Max, Leon and Matthew together for a family Christmas at St Mary's. Max then takes Matthew to nineteenth-century London, intending to bring festive treats to friends from his earlier life. Their generosity leads them into a confrontation with Old Ma Scrope.
This time the customary unauthorised Christmas expedition involves a mother and son as well as a historical destination.
Our view: choose it for the combination of family relationships and a purposeful return visit. The premise makes the people waiting in the past matter as much as the journey, while Max has to negotiate a parental role alongside her usual instincts.
Read this story separately as an ebook or in Long Story Short, where it opens the collection. It follows And the Rest Is History in this site's suggested route. The individual UK unabridged recording, narrated by Zara Ramm, lasts 1 hour 39 minutes.
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- And the Rest Is History · St Mary’s
- An Argumentation of Historians · St Mary’s
- Long Story Short · Standalone & collections
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- 2019 · publication source ↗
- Audiobook
- Zara Ramm · 1 hr 39 min
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UK Digital audio · English · Unabridged
Listed audio release: 2 September 2024.
UK Ebook · Headline Publishing Group
ISBN 9781472264558 · released 1 January 2019
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