Since November 2009Book News: There’s No Place Like Home at Christmas by Various
Posted on Monday, November 15th, 2010 by Chloe
This book was brought to my attention by Cathy Kelly when she posted it on Facebook last week, and I thought it was such a good idea, especially at this time of year I wanted to bring it to your attention. In aid of The Jack & Jill Foundation, a selection of Irish personalities have written some short stories based around the idea of Christmas. Authors include Cathy Kelly, Maeve Binchy, Niall Quinn and Eddie Hobbs. So if you fancy helping a charity and having a bit of festive read, look out for a copy of There’s No Place Like Home At Christmas.
“In aid of The Jack & Jill Foundation. A collection of new Christmas stories written by well known Irish personalities including Maeve Binchy, Niall Quinn, Cathy Kelly, Eddie Hobbs, Patrick Hickey and Judi Curtin. Describing the true meaning of Christmas, this collection of nearly 30 stories is varied and colourful and will warm the very cockles of your heart. This book will help raise funds for The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation, who provide home nursing care and respite to the families of precious children with brain damage who require intensive care in the place they call home. The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation (www.jackandjill.ie) was set up in 1997 by Jonathan Irwin and his wife MaryAnn O’Brien (MD of Lily O’Brien’s) to help young children in Ireland who are born with or develop brain damage and who suffer severe intellectual and physical developmental delay as a result. They decided to set up Jack & Jill based on their own experience with their son Jack whose short life showed them the ideal way in which little children can be nursed at home. From their experience evolved the Jack & Jill model of home nursing and respite care that supports 320 families in Ireland today and has helped over 1,200 children and their families since 1997.”
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