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**Zoom Event – Sunday, Dec. 6th – 3PM**
What if Scrooge were a woman? Join The Stockbridge Library to find out with audiobook narrator Alison Larkin, who will read from her adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6. This virtual event will be held through The Stockbridge Library Zoom account.
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“Sometimes one just has to think outside the box. Alison Larkin is one such being.”
—THE BERKSHIRE EDGE | Read the full article

“A reimagining of the classic Christmas story, adapted by narrator Alison Larkin, treats the listener to Dickens’s holiday tale–with one change. In this version, the iconic Ebenezer Scrooge is a woman. Larkin’s performance skills are superb. She provides an engaging romp through nineteenth-century London at Christmas. Her spirited style infuses the production with flair and personality, breathing life into Scrooge and all she encounters, ghosts included. Furthering the listening experience is the music throughout. Both the instrumental rendition of “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” bookending the audiobook and Larkin’s own singing between ensure that one cannot help but feel the holiday spirit.”
—AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE

Following her recent adaptation of Great Expectations, bestselling novelist and award-winning audiobook narrator Alison Larkin changes the gender of Scrooge in this exciting new recording of A Christmas Carol.

It’s the same beloved Christmas story – only one thing has changed.  In this version, Scrooge is a woman.

Everything else, though, is pure Dickens. So, the characters around Scrooge behave as if it were quite normal for a woman to learn to read and write, fall in love with and reject a woman and have the kind of career only men could dream of in 1843.

It’s an irresistible question. If gender had been simply irrelevant in the 19th century where would we all be now?

Narrator 
Alison Larkin is the bestselling author of The English American, an internationally acclaimed comedienne and the award-winning narrator of over 200 audiobooks including The Complete Novels of Jane Austen.

Reviews for Alison Larkin
“A novel rich in imagination, detail, and surprises requires a narrator who can embrace every element of the story — Alison Larkin is that narrator..”
—AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE

“Alison Larkin is hugely entertaining.” —THE TIMES

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