Miss Marley: A Christmas ghost story

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Dickens’ London reimagined by the wonderful author Vanessa Lafaye who sadly died earlier this year before she could complete this novella. Rebecca Mascull, an author in her own right, took up the pen and finished it so this world is a creation of two great writers paying homage to Dickens himself.

The streets are cobbled, the urchins crowd round shops windows and the city is as bustling and as dirty as ever:

“Snow was just beginning to fall, the sort of fluffy, delicate flakes that turned slowly through the lamp-light frosting the pavements and the shops lining Percy Street, and softening the clop of the horses’ hooves. Customers spilled out of the door of Mr Quoit’s, arms laden with gaily wrapped for lucky children.”

“A group of ragged poor children were always clustered around the window, noses running, smearing the dimpled glass with their grubby hands. Dreaming of toys they would never touch, much less possess.”

This is Dickens London : A must see is of course the museum of the writer’s home, where he wrote some of his novels.