{"product_id":"turning-on-the-christmas-lights-nellie-woods-9781708133443","title":"Turning on the Christmas Lights: Enchanting, heartwarming \u0026 down right quirky tales","description":"Brand new funny fiction with that feel good factor for Christmas and beyond.\"Blackpool Illuminations - that's our house at Christmas. It's the pinnacle of Dad's year.\" The Finnegan family are well known in Leicester for their spectacular Christmas House - father Conor Finnegan's enthusiasm knows no bounds. Could this year be the best year ever? Will the Finnegan's make it to the BBC news as the final feel-good story? And will daughter Sinead have the Christmas romance she so desperately yearns for?Nellie Woods adds an impressive new voice to the world of fiction through Turning on the Christmas Lights - a hilarious and heart-warming collection of short stories. Her powerful observation of everyday people creates a distinct array of eccentric and endearing characters. Where else in a single book would you meet a feckless Father Christmas, an unsilenced corpse, a disease-phobic nurse and a boy with a vision from God?In this, her first short story collection, Nellie draws inspiration from her Irish ancestry and her experiences of British life in a multicultural metropolis. Nellie Woods challenges taboos and writes with humour, sensitivity and irreverence on issues relevant to everyone living in the modern age: love, religion, diversity, immigration, mental health, adolescence and old age. Settle down by a roaring fire, relax and drink in this dazzling collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nellie Woods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1708133445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781708133443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.27d","brand":"Nellie Woods","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48930133016831,"sku":"9781708133443","price":6.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/turning-on-the-christmas-lights-nellie-woods-9781708133443","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}