On a hot summer day some twenty years after he was famously converted to kindness, Ebenezer Scrooge still roams the streets of London, spreading Christmas cheer, much to the annoyance of his creditors, nephew, and his employee Bob Cratchit. However, when Scrooge decides to help his old friend and former partner Jacob Marley, he will need the assistance of the very people he's annoyed, as well as the three ghosts who visited him all those years ago. In uncannily Dickensian prose, Charlie Lovett offers a winking yet loving tribute to the Victorian classic, with illustrations styled after period engravings.