{"product_id":"the-man-who-saved-christmas-9798277941416","title":"The Man Who Saved Christmas","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steve McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comics \u0026amp; Graphic Novels - Light Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen spends Christmas Eve on a complaints line, apologising to strangers for parcels that will never arrive. By the time he boards the late bus home, he's had his fill of festive cheer - the adverts, the pressure, the feeling that everyone else is having a perfect day he can never quite give his son, Liam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when a mysterious older man on the bus listens to Ben's rant and presses a battered snow globe into his hand, calling it a \"Christmas gift\" and warning him to be careful what he wishes for, Ben laughs it off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil he wakes up to find that Christmas has gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo carols. No lights. No adverts. No one - not his ex, not the radio, not even Google - has heard of Christmas at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith only a hazy memory of the day that used to be, a penguin-pyjama-wearing seven-year-old who still deserves some magic, and a neighbour who refuses to let him spiral, Ben sets out to rebuild Christmas from scratch inside his block of flats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs fairy lights go up, recipes are guessed at, and strangers become something closer to family, the snow globe on his windowsill begins to change - and so does Ben's idea of what the \"perfect\" Christmas should look like.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Saved Christmas\u003c\/i\u003e is a warm, hopeful festive short story about single dads and second chances, the courage it takes to care, and the quiet magic that happens when a whole building decides that one little boy is getting his Christmas, whether the world remembers it or not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47574740598935,"sku":"9798277941416","price":835.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798277941416.webp?v=1774896233","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-man-who-saved-christmas-9798277941416","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}