Everyone has been told the story of Scrooge.Few have ever met Ebenezer.Before the legend, there was Ebenezer.London, December 1843.Ebenezer Scrooge is brilliant, formidable, feared — and increasingly alone.But before London knew Scrooge, there was a boy who adored Christmas. He laughed with his sister Fan, played music with her and performed in the ridiculous Christmas plays she invented every year.Fan’s final play was never performed.Ebenezer still remembers every word.Then, during one extraordinary week before Christmas, the world he has kept at arm’s length begins refusing to stay there.Bob Cratchit challenges the human cost of his certainty. His nephew Fred refuses to stop inviting him home. And Grace Ashcombe — widowed, funny, independent and entirely unimpressed by reputation — remembers enough of the man beneath Scrooge to wonder whether everyone else has forgotten him.What follows is a Christmas of arguments and consequences. Games and grudges. Food, family, laughter, music and memory.And one unfinished play that has waited a lifetime for its final act.Understanding Ebenezer will not absolve Scrooge.Christmas cannot undo what has been done.But perhaps there is still time for a man who stopped believing in tomorrow to discover that he wants one.Fast-paced, dialogue-rich and filled with humour, family, music and heart, &Scrooge is a Christmas story about the man everyone thinks they know — and the human being the legend left behind.This Christmas, meet Ebenezer. Read more
