I have read and loved many more ‘serious’ novels by Adam Roberts (Bête and The Real-Town Murders being among my all time favourite books) and I didn’t realise he had written several humorous parody type books. Since they were pretty cheap on kindle, I bought this and gave it a go.
Well, it started off being similar to Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, with the exception of Marley being not so much a ghost as a reanimated corpse and it got crazier from there.
With zombies, time travel and a sinister twist on a much loved character the book was lots of fun, and Scrooge, like in the original went on a spiritual journey.
Sarah Wray Writer 