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Not Just for Christmas (Open Door) (Paperback)

by Roddy Doyle (Author)
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  • Paperback: 64 pages
  • Publisher: New Island Books; First Printing edition (30 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1902602153
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902602158
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 93,282 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Danny Murphy is going to meet his brother, Jimmy. They haven't seen each other in more than 20 years. On the way to the meeting, Danny remembers the fun and the fights - and the one big fight that drove them apart. Will they fight again, or will they become the friends they used to be.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just for Education, 25 Nov 2007
`Not Just for Christmas' is a novella written by Roddy Doyle for the Open Door education series of books. As a ninety page written to order story by rights it should be rubbish but unfortunately it is absolutely fantastic.

Written as a piece of nostalgia the story concerns Danny Murphy going to meet his brother, Jimmy, after an estrangement lasting over twenty years. Despite the short form of the book the childhood fights, teenage adventures and the big row that tore them apart are relived by the reader. By the time the meeting comes to its conclusion the reader has developed an emotional attachment to the Murphy brothers that most writers could hope to develop with a novel spanning a thousand pages.

Roddy Doyle's writing captures the real emotions of other people's lives and the warmth brings us in to enjoy them as if they were old friends or members of our own families. A fantastic piece of writing very much in the mould of `Paddy Clarke, Ha, Ha, Ha,' and `The Woman Who Walked into Doors' both of which preceded it.
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