Ellen Karadimas

This book is brilliantly written in a very "Dickensian" voice. It's also one of the most thought-provoking and controversial books I've ever read. Whelan takes a classic character, Ebenezer Scrooge, from Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", and crawls deeper into the background and psychology of this man, to exhume the reasons why Scrooge became the mean-spirited miser he was prior to the three ghosts visiting him. It's an interesting theory, but would Dickens approve? Reader be warned: You'll never look at Scrooge the same way again.