Mr. Dickens and His Carol by Samantha Silva (2017)
A novel about Dickens with writer’s block, a deadline and a stranger on his night walks.
Imagine the weeks before the book, and where every name and scene in it might have come from.
You want a December novel about Dickens that loves the book as much as you do.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the Carol as the thing being written.
Changes: the genre, to a historical novel. Dickens, after the failure of Martin Chuzzlewit, meets a woman called Eleanor Lovejoy on his walks through London.
Whose story is it?
Dickens’s.
How much time does it ask?
288 pages in the 2020 Flatiron paperback; first published in 2017.
Flatiron Books: first published 31 October 2017; paperback 22 September 2020, 288 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)