When Christmas Goes to Work

<p>When Christmas Goes to Work is not another sweet holiday storybook. It's a darkly funny painfully honest look at Christmas from the people who work while everyone else is relaxing.</p><p>Doctors and nurses police officers and firefighters couriers and janitors hairdressers and priests psychiatrists and healers rich and poor pensioners even an astronaut and a funeral home director - each chapter shows how the holidays really look from their side of the counter the uniform or the night shift.</p><p>Inside you'll find:</p><p>- short cinematic scenes from Christmas Eve in different professions; </p><p>- sharp jokes and one‑liners with a good dose of black humour; </p><p>- aphorisms that hit harder than any greeting card; </p><p>- letters to Santa written by exhausted adults not children; </p><p>- honest wishes for the reader - without fake positivity.</p><p>This book is for you if:</p><p>- you've ever spent Christmas on shift on call or in uniform; </p><p>- you feel out of place at the perfect family table; </p><p>- you secretly prefer honesty with humour to shiny lies with glitter.</p><p>Not a book about perfect holidays. </p><p>A book about the people who keep the world running while the fairy lights are on.</p>