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A perfectly pitched evocative short story about Christmas memories, and remembering who has been important to you over your life time, visited by ghosts of Christmas past, and looking back at family memories.I could imagine it being read on Radio 4 over Christmas - beautifully gentle
A short story about family and what is important during Christmas. While the protagonist takes a bath, a Christmas ritual for her, she remembers and reflects about her family and her relationships. I particularly liked the way of writing; it felt nostalgic and showed some sort of sorrow paired with some hope and little happiness. I felt such a mix of many feelings that I think I need to read this story again to comprehend it completely. It was not a typical well-being, everyone-is-happy Christma...
Family, a hot bath, Christmas. It could not get more festive, and cheerful, right? How about talking to ghosts of past Christmases over a hot bath, a family tragedy lurking behind? It's not so cheerful any more. Still, this was an excellent Christmas read, a thought-provoking, yet gentle short story of how we gather our memories, how we build our traditions, where we take our models from. And, in the end, about what matters most.
I first became aware of Evers as someone I'd bump into at parties, back when those were a thing, but over the years he's quietly become a pretty well-respected author, albeit one with whom I've not kept up very well. Indeed, this short story is a festive sidebar to his most recent novel, which I've not read, but by which I'm definitely now tempted. So I have no idea of the wider context for this story of a family which has made fragile and partial social advances from a background in service, bu...
A beautiful festive short story from Stuart Evers set on Christmas Eve, in 1955, June luxuriates in a Christmas Eve ritual of a sacrosant bath habit she picked up from the lady of the house where she was once in service. A bath in which she will tolerate no interruptions, not even from her husband, Peter. In this bath, she communes with the dead, including her son, Thomas and her daughter-in-law, Pearl, it is at once a communion, a tradition and a reckoning. June does get interrupted by a surpri...
A quick short story about family values and the importance of honoring the dead while still appreciating the ones that are alive. Its festive it’s sweet and a smooth read.
A short story by Stuart Evers about one Christmas in which the lead character reflects on her former employer and family members who have passed on, while taking her annual luxurious bath, in which she allows no one to disturb her. Not exactly what I expected, but very interesting and different and I appreciated the style of writing.
