Marvin Kaye has crafted a wondeful sequel to Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," picking up the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and revisiting familiar characters such as Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, and many others, following it through to an altogether satisfying conclusion in an intricate tapestry of the real and the supernatural, as the reformed Scrooge tries to satisfy a nagging feeling of something yet undone. ". . . intriguing and unusual. It's a very interesting idea to put a new text into an 'intertextual' relationship with a Dickens original. The treatment of the Jewish angle throws a sidelight on early C19th society and fictional representations of it at the time which is extremely interesting. I'm sure that many readers will find it fascinating . . . In short, a worthy endeavour with much that is thought-provoking." --Charles Palliser "It's a brave soul who writes a sequel to a universally-loved and -known book like "A Christmas Carol"; it's a rarer man still who does ...

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