Families in literature: finding relations in Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg

A heartwarming tale of Alabama life finds an unconventional family in the community of Lost River
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On a wet August afternoon in Brussels nine years ago my husband suggested returning to the English bookshop – there were some science books he had yet to peruse. The shop also bought and sold secondhand books so I took along two novels to sell, and with my three euros bought a nearly-new copy of Fannie Flagg’s Redbird Christmas.

It may have looked like a book for Christmas, but when I dipped into the first couple of chapters on the journey home I was hooked. I barely spoke to my husband until I had finished the novel back home in London that evening. The next day I started reading it again.

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