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Tidings: A Christmas Ballad | Ruth Padel

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Come with me to St Pancras Old Church, on a little London hill... It s Christmas Eve and on this enchanted night Charoum, the Angel of Silence, can speak. As night turns to day, he unfolds a resonant story of a little girl, a homeless man and a fox... In the tradition of Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas, Tidings takes us on a journey into the heart of Christmas, showing us celebrations down the ages and across the globe as dawn sweeps from East Australia to Bethlehem, from London to the Statue of Liberty in New York. This is Christmas in all its magic, reminding us that it is a time not only of good tidings, but of loneliness and longing, compassion and connection. Beautifully illustrated and exquisitely musical, Tidings is a poem to be read out loud and cherished."

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Tidings: A Christmas Ballad | Ruth Padel

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I loved Padel's modern Christmas fable, in which Charoum, the Angel of Silence, for one day and night follows Holly, a seven-year-old girl who has not spoken of the gift she most longs for, and Robin, a middle-aged homeless man who has not spoken to anybody about anything for many years.
It's a story that exemplifies Christian loving-kindness, without being preachy or mawkish. A quietly hopeful 5⭐ Oh, and a fox 🦊❤️

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Tidings: A Christmas Ballad | Ruth Padel

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This has everything I want from a Christmas poetry collection. An angel of silence gets a voice for 24 hours a year and uses it to tell us the story of a young girl and a homeless man at Christmas in snowy London.

#wintergames2020 #merryreaders @Clwojick +26

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