The Night Before Christmas

Alice Taylor takes a nostalgic, loving look back to a family firmly rooted in tradition and humour and - in particular - the Christmas traditions of her childhood. With her unerring knack of bringing her readers into her home, her stories of a childhood Christmas are rich, warm and amusing, giving a wonderful insight into life as it was.



Full of finely observed detail rendered with the misleading simplicity of a real craftswoman.



The Night Before Christmas is a nostalgic and loving look back to a family firmly rooted in tradition and humour. Whether the reader is in the teens or is a senior citizen, this book will charm and captivate.



Magical... It truly pulls back the curtain of time to the days when Christmas was really Christmas