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It's Earlier 'Tis Getting: The Christmas Book of Irish Mammies

ISBN 
9781848272415
Format 
Hardback
Recommended Price 
R295.00
Published 
December 2017
About the book: 
Christmas – a time for peace, joy and Mammies.
 While others are focusing on Santa/Santy, the school nativity play, the office party and its wild cousin the Twelve Pubs, panicked present shopping and the delicate diplomacy of in-law visiting, the Irish Mammy is mobilized in her war-room – ready for the campaign. Electric blankets have been set to maximum power; cards have been despatched; the turkey has been ordered; the decorations have been retrieved from the Place Where The Decorations Go and the fifth Big Shop (to get breadcrumbs) has been completed.
 There are homecomings from near and far, new arrivals, drama, bustle, tears and laughter, and Mammy at the heart of it all, directing operations.
 There’s bound to be something she’s forgotten – but luckily, just like a certain someone, she’s made a list.

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