Ever since George's mam passed away in a car accident on Christmas Eve, his dad refuses to celebrate Christmas and has become cold and irritable. Three years on, George's days are lacking in colour and a trip to a magical miracle shop might be the key to restoring Hugo's Christmas spirit and crush the Scrooge inside him.

This was a really fun, cute read that I enjoyed a lot, and it's just perfect for the Christmas season. The story is obviously inspired by Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but Catherine Doyle has managed to inject her own ideas and magic into it to make it her own. The Dickens' references in the book are magnificent, and the characters are all either lovable or easy to despise at times. It took me a long time to warm up to George's dad as he was just such a Scrooge!

My only real complaint with this book was I was disappointed this book was set in London, and not in Dublin or another Irish town as the author was Irish. We did have some Irish charm in Grandma Flo but I would have loved it to have been set in Ireland.