Mary Clive re-creates every detail of an Edwardian Christmas in this novel of a young girl sent from London to the countryside to spend her holiday with a cast of grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and caregivers. Lady Mary Clive, who lived to 102, wrote several histories but this humorous portrait of Christmas from the child’s perspective was her most popular.

London: MacMillan & Co Ltd, 1964. Hardback. 22 x 15cm. 177 pages. 1964 reprint. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine, pink and black dust jacket and illustrations by Philip Gough. Very good book in very good dust jacket.