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Link by Link: Overture to A Christmas Carol
Before he terrorized London’s rich and poor alike with his stingy bahs and abusive humbugs, before his astonishing transformation, Scrooge was Ebenezer.
What and who curdled the heart of this brilliant, haunted boy?
They’re all here, everyone you know and love, but lurking behind every shadow and familiar face is a malevolent Enemy, who is ever striving against those Christmas Spirits, working to prevent the life of the child yet to come.
This Enemy knows that Ebenezer is key—that he will grow to either save, or—if It can turn Ebenezer into the foulest skinflint to ever haunt London’s streets—condemn the child to an ill fate. (‘I see a vacant seat in the chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.’)
The Enemy strikes early.
On the heels of losing his mother, Ebenezer’s hard-and-sharp-as-flint father sends him away to Alfriston School for Boys. There he descends into grief, becoming self-contained and employing his fathers’ caustic dismissal, BAH!—all part of his training. Link by link, he begins forging a ponderous chain of his own freewill. From pits of despair to heights of glee; from Fezziwig’s Christmas dances and the positive, womanly influences of Fani and Belle to heartache, Ebenezer girds himself with this strong coil. When he meets poverty-hating business phenom Jacob Marley, it grows full and heavy as sin.
Following that legendary transformative Christmas Eve, he becomes as good a man and benefactor as Tiny Tim Cratchit could ever ask for—one whose destiny extends far beyond himself and the narrow limits of his counting house. Witness the inspiring denouement, 180 years in the making!
What and who curdled the heart of this brilliant, haunted boy?
They’re all here, everyone you know and love, but lurking behind every shadow and familiar face is a malevolent Enemy, who is ever striving against those Christmas Spirits, working to prevent the life of the child yet to come.
This Enemy knows that Ebenezer is key—that he will grow to either save, or—if It can turn Ebenezer into the foulest skinflint to ever haunt London’s streets—condemn the child to an ill fate. (‘I see a vacant seat in the chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.’)
The Enemy strikes early.
On the heels of losing his mother, Ebenezer’s hard-and-sharp-as-flint father sends him away to Alfriston School for Boys. There he descends into grief, becoming self-contained and employing his fathers’ caustic dismissal, BAH!—all part of his training. Link by link, he begins forging a ponderous chain of his own freewill. From pits of despair to heights of glee; from Fezziwig’s Christmas dances and the positive, womanly influences of Fani and Belle to heartache, Ebenezer girds himself with this strong coil. When he meets poverty-hating business phenom Jacob Marley, it grows full and heavy as sin.
Following that legendary transformative Christmas Eve, he becomes as good a man and benefactor as Tiny Tim Cratchit could ever ask for—one whose destiny extends far beyond himself and the narrow limits of his counting house. Witness the inspiring denouement, 180 years in the making!
217 pages, Paperback
Published May 25, 2024
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September 17, 2024
For those familiar with Dicken's A Christmas Carol, this offering will look familiar. But Link By Link is not a mere retelling of the events surrounding Ebeneezer Scrooge. Link By Link takes a look behind the characters of Dicken's novella and a look beyond them to weave a marvelous back story to Scrooge's transformation. If you already love A Christmas Carol, then you will also fall in love with S. R. Buckel's Link By Link.
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