Christmas Carol: A Fairy Tale - Paperback

by Piers Torday (Adapted by)

Things are going to be different. Very different...

1838, London. Jacob Marley is dead. And so is Ebenezer Scrooge...

In this reinvention of the timeless classic, Ebenezer has died and his sister Fan has inherited his money-lending business. She rapidly becomes notorious as the most monstrous miser ever known, a legendary misanthrope, lonely, and despised by all who cross her path.

This year, on Christmas Eve, Fan Scrooge will be haunted by three spirits. They want her to change. But will she?

This stage adaptation of Dickens's Christmas tale first came to life in the Dickensian environment of the world's oldest-surviving music hall, Wilton's Music Hall, London, in December 2019.

Author Biography

Piers Torday is a British novelist and playwright.

His novels include: The Last Wild (2013), The Dark Wild (2014, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize), The Wild Beyond (2015), There May Be a Castle (2016), The Lost Magician (2018) and The Frozen Sea (2019).

His works for the stage include: Christmas Carol: A Fairy Tale after Dickens (Wilton's Music Hall, London, 2019) and an adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights (Wilton's Music Hall, 2017, revived 2018).

(Author photo by James Betts)