What the Dickens?

Elly Griffiths interviewed by Lucinda Hawksley Bah! Humbug! Get into the festive spirit with award-winning novelist Elly Griffiths, as she discusses her novella, The Case of the Christmas Card. Elly is author of the Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries, the Brighton mysteries and now, the time-travelling detective series, featuring Ali Dawson. Ali is getting ready for Christmas, but she’s not in a very festive mood because her friend daughter has gone missing. So, when she sees a top hat outside her front door, she decides to give the carol singers short shrift. But it isn’t carol singers. It’s Charles Dickens. Charles has made his way from 1851 to 2024 and is keen to enjoy a 21st century Christmas. He’s a rather trying house guest - but he turns out to be an excellent detective. Who better than to interview Elly than Charles Dickens’s great, great, great granddaughter – Lucinda Hawksley – whose books include Dickens and Christmas and Victorian Christmas. Pop on a Santa hat, chuck on a woolly scarf, and explore the enduring legacy of one of the world’s most influential stories of all time: A Christmas Carol.