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About Robert Westall
See more books from this Author(The ghost--the plant's late owner, a good- hearted Jewish industrialist--happens to look just like Santa Claus, an intended irony on Westall's part.) The second story, ``The Christmas Cat,'' is narrated by a spunky girl spending a dreary Christmas vacation with her bachelor uncle, an Anglican vi...
| Read Full Review of Christmas Spirit: Two StoriesVicarages, silver sixpences, ``the banked sleekness of chestnuts'' and good-hearted ghosts are among the trimmings that give these posthumously collected stories their old-fashioned charm. In ``The Ch
Oct 03 1994 | Read Full Review of Christmas Spirit: Two StoriesVicarages, silver sixpences, ``the banked sleekness of chestnuts'' and good-hearted ghosts are among the trimmings that give these posthumously collected stories their old-fashioned charm.
| Read Full Review of Christmas Spirit: Two Stories