Marley by Jon Clinch (2019)
A novel of Jacob Marley’s life, before he was dead to begin with.
Marley was dead to begin with. Before that, he was alive, and he was Scrooge’s partner.
You know the Carol well and you want the dark novel of the partner who came before it.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Marley, Scrooge and their counting-house.
Changes: the time and the hero: it goes back before the Carol and follows Marley through a harsh London of early capitalism.
Whose story is it?
Jacob Marley’s.
How much time does it ask?
304 pages, Atria paperback (2020); first published in 2019.
Atria Books (Simon & Schuster), trade paperback 3 November 2020, 304 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the paperback — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Paperback — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Christmas Carols: The Penguin Classics edition, ed. Michael Slater (2003) · The Oxford World’s Classics edition, ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (2008) · The Annotated Christmas Carol, ed. Michael Patrick Hearn (2004)