{"product_id":"when-christmas-goes-to-work-9798232413859","title":"When Christmas Goes to Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mari1974\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Mari1974\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Mari1974\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Form - Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"When Christmas Goes to Work\" is not another sweet holiday storybook. It's a darkly funny, painfully honest look at Christmas from the people who work while everyone else is \"relaxing\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoctors and nurses, police officers and firefighters, couriers and janitors, hairdressers and priests, psychiatrists and healers, rich and poor pensioners, even an astronaut and a funeral home director - each chapter shows how the holidays really look from their side of the counter, the uniform, or the night shift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside you'll find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- short, cinematic scenes from Christmas Eve in different professions; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- sharp jokes and one-liners with a good dose of black humour; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- aphorisms that hit harder than any greeting card; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- \"letters to Santa\" written by exhausted adults, not children; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- honest wishes for the reader - without fake positivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for you if: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- you've ever spent Christmas on shift, on call, or in uniform; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- you feel out of place at the \"perfect\" family table; \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- you secretly prefer honesty with humour to shiny lies with glitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot a book about perfect holidays. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book about the people who keep the world running while the fairy lights are on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mari1974","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47779044327575,"sku":"9798232413859","price":914.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798232413859.webp?v=1778033019","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/when-christmas-goes-to-work-9798232413859","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}