'The perfect gift for anyone who loves all things Christmas ... it's a festive gem' Woman & Home 'A beautiful, funny and soulful collection of personal essays' Prima ___________ The perfect gift book, featuring the writing of Meryl Streep, Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, Richard Ayoade, Emily Watson and others, to coincide with the upcoming movie Last Christmas, starring Emma Thompson, Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding. When you think back to Christmases past, what (if anything) made it magical? Looking towards the future, what would your perfect Christmas be? What would you change? What should we all change? This is a beautiful, funny and soulful collection of personal essays about the meaning of Christmas, written by a unique plethora of voices from the boulevards of Hollywood to the soup kitchens of Covent Garden. Away from the John Lewis advert, the high street decorations and the candied orange in Heston Blumenthal's Christmas pudding, this gem of a book introduced and curated by Emma Thompson and Greg Wise celebrates the importance of kindness and generosity, acceptance and tolerance - and shows us that these values are not just for Christmas.

エマ・トンプソンらが編纂した本作は、クリスマスの虚飾を剥ぎ取り、人間の善性を問う珠玉のエッセイ集です。豪華な寄稿者たちが綴るのは単なる思い出話ではなく、他者への寛容や自己犠牲といった普遍的テーマを、鋭い洞察とユーモアで浮き彫りにする文学的な深み。現代社会が見失いがちな「心のあり方」を鮮烈に提示しています。 映画版が華やかな映像美で物語を紡ぐ一方、本書はその精神的支柱を補完しています。テキスト特有の親密な語り口は、映画の根底にある「他者を思いやる心」を深い思索へと昇華させます。両メディアを横断することで、物語の慈愛は季節を越えた永続的な感動へと変わるはずです。