Christmas with the SavagesMary CliveLabel: PuffinDescription: An ideal stocking-filler for Christmas - CHRISTMAS WITH THE SAVAGES by Mary Clive is based on real events and people. It is the story of a small girl's Christmas holiday in a large Edwardian country house is effortlessly funny. At Tamerlane Hall Evelyn finds a horde of children: the gentle Glens the plaintive Howliboos and above all the uninhibited Savages. They are controlled - or not - by a host of parents supernumerary Uncles and Aunts Nannies and nursery-maids. Evelyn survives the Christmas festivities - just - returning home none too soon! Seen through the eyes of a prim little eight-year-old this is an amusing and touching account of a childhood a hundred years ago.
