James Patterson & Tad Safran: The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas (UK 2024)

From the Publisher:
No stockings, no gifts, no tinsel and no tree - has Christmas been cancelled?
It's mid-December and for the fifth year in a row, there is little sign of the festive season in the Sullivan family's home in South London. That is until a mysterious someone starts sending strange gifts to widower Henry and his two children.

First, a small-beaked and feathered face pokes its head out from between the branches of a pear tree. Before they know it, the Sullivan's home is full of boisterous animals and house guests, all demanding their attention.

The next twelve days turn the Sullivan family's lives upside down in ways they never could have imagined. And even though this Christmas will be messy, it may be just the gift their family needs.

James Patterson & Tad Safran: The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas. Penguin, ISBN: 9781529159509 (October, 2024), 400 p., £8.99.

James Patterson & Tad Safran: The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas (USA 2024)

From the Publisher:
Move over, Dickens -- America's favorite storyteller has written a gift, "a delightful Christmas story to be shared by the whole family" (Kirkus), destined to become as treasured as A Christmas Carol.

At Christmastime, a family of three are missing someone dear to them. Until unexpected guests begin to arrive at their empty house, filling it with Christmas memories in the making.

Listening to the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is a beloved holiday tradition.

Now comes a new one: Reading James Patterson's instant classic, The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas.

James Patterson & Tad Safran: The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN: 9781538710845 (October, 2024), 288 p., $17.99.

James Patterson & Tad Safran: The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas (USA 2022)

From the Publisher:
Move over, Dickens -- America's favorite storyteller has written a modern Christmas story for the ages.
Every year at Christmastime, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people.

At their brownstone in Harlem, stockings go unstuffed, tinsel unstrewn, gifts unbought, mistletoe unhung, chestnuts unroasted, carols unplayed, cookies uncooked, a tree un-visible, and guests uninvited.

Until guests start arriving anyway. In pairs and sixes, in sevens and tens -- they keep coming. And they stay. For twelve long, hard, topsy-turvy, very messy days. That's when the Sullivans discover that those moments in life that defy hope, expectation, or even imagination, might be the best gifts of all.

James Patterson & Tad Safran: The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas. Little, Brown & Co., ISBN: 9780316405904 (October, 2022), 288 p., $25.00, eBook $12.99.

James Patterson & Tad Safran: The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas (UK 2022)

From the Publisher:
No stockings, no gifts, no tinsel and no tree - has Christmas been cancelled?
It's mid-December and for the fifth year in a row, there is little sign of the festive season in the Sullivan family's home in South London. That is until a mysterious someone starts sending strange gifts to widower Henry and his two children.

First, a small-beaked and feathered face pokes its head out from between the branches of a pear tree. Before they know it, the Sullivan's home is full of boisterous animals and house guests, all demanding their attention.

The next twelve days turn the Sullivan family's lives upside down in ways they never could have imagined. And even though this Christmas will be messy, it may be just the gift their family needs.

James Patterson & Tad Safran: The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas. Century, ISBN: 9781529136371 (September, 2022), 400 p., £20.00, eBook £9.99.