A Very British Christmas Author Surname:Temple a far too canny police

a far too canny police constable

' Spectator

The writer's weird vision mixes brilliantly with the trappings of earlier Gothic horror to form innovative mosaics of frightful fiction that will long haunt the reader's subconscious

and has started a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill

A Very British Christmas Author Surname:Temple a far too canny policeFrom the forensic science that is gift giving 'but what does this really convey about me as a person?' to who sits where at the dining table, the nuances between a roast chicken and roast turkey, and how Boxing Day was probably invented so that people could finish games of Monopoly (if you are, that is, still talking to each other by that point), 'A Very British Christmas' is a wryly hilarious celebration of unbearably awkward Britishness at the most