Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson

Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson (JW) is a fun book of 12 original stories and 12 personal essays. Touches of magic provide happy endings, and I especially enjoyed the two ghost stories.  Her recipes and personal essays can be very funny, as when she calls her difficult mother “Mrs. Winterson” and says “This was a woman for whom life was a pre-death experience.”  Although JW writes literary novels, I very much enjoyed this Christmas collection.