Lucy Vickery

Spectator competition winners: contemporary reimaginings of A Christmas Carol

[The Granger Collection / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 17 December 2022

In Competition No. 3279, you were invited to submit an extract from a contemporary reimagining of Charles Dickens’s A ChristmasCarol. In 2018, the former children’s laureate Michael Rosen updated the novella – my ‘Ghostly little book’ as Dickens called it – for a 21st-century age of austerity; fast forward a few years and its themes and moral message strike more of a chord than ever.

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