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Tidings: A Christmas Ballad
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 (…more)
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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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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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