Merry Christmas!: (A modern reimagined version of A Christmas Carol)

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Merry Christmas! is a moving, reimagined version of Dickens A Christmas Carol for the 21st Century. If that master storyteller were around today, he would surely be entertained by this clever rendition.

Eddie Scarr, a modern facsimile of Scrooge, is angrier and more damaged than the original, but just as successful in his own milieu. Hes a Department for Work and Pensions enforcement officer whose sole reason for existing, it seems, is to make life as difficult as possible for would-be benefit fraudsters, and everyone else who crosses his path.

At the age of seven Eddie was dumped in a care home by his older sister, following the death of their parents. The experience of this grim institution, with its uncaring care parents, not only deeply scarred him, but left him haunted to this day.

A workaholic, he is driven in pursuit of cheats, even on Christmas Eve, despite being wracked with a vicious head cold. As he makes his way home to his cold apartment and equally cold bed, he has an alarming encounter with a former clients, whom he had previously hounded to death. Even more alarming encounters await him when he logs on to his computer at home. But will any of these encounters change him for the better We can only hope.

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Double BAFTA winner GF Newman has written a dozen+ novels, as many television films, plus 27 feature-length teleplays Judge John Deed, which he created and produced. His debut novel, Sir, You Bastard, was a cause clbre; following his television debut, the mini-series, Law & Order, Members of Parliament called for his prosecution for sedition; his debut stage-play Operation: Bad Apple was another cause clbre. He wrote and created BBC Radio 4s longest running drama series, 58 plays from his novel, The Corrupted, a fictional history of the crime-business-politics nexus from the 1950s to the bank crash of 2008. His last previous novel is in the Judge John Deed series, Guilty Until Proven Otherwise; his latest is Merry Christmas! He has completed three novels since then, No Way Back about people trafficked to New York for their organs; The Heart a thriller about heart transplant, and Merry Christmas! a reimagined modern version of Dickens A Christmas Carol, none of which has yet been offered for sale.