This was the best christmas present in the world for her.
The best christmas present in the world summary.
The roll top the author found a roll top desk in a junk shop.
Suitable titles could be a religious wish s embodiment someday at christmas the christmas message.
This one was in a bad condition the roll top in several pieces one leg clumsily mended scorch.
The narrator buys a roll top desk.
The letter was precious to her but even more precious was her delusion that the narrator was her husband jim who she believed had returned as promised on a christmas day.
I had wanted one but they were far too expensive.
He began to work on it on christmas eve.
He decided to repair it and started work on christmas eve.
He found that these had been badly damaged by fire and.
Connie macpherson to deliver the letter written by her husband jim during the war.
The best christmas present in the world.
He thought that he could restore it.
The narrator had always wanted to buy a roll top desk but could not as they were too costly.
Finally he found a second hand bargain on one in a junk shop.
He read the letter.
It was damaged but cheap.
The letter he pulled out the drawers.
Before getting into war he was a school teacher in dorset present in the west part of england.
The narrator started its repairing on christmas eve and found a letter in its drawer.
Echoes of christmas 1914 in the trenches call to the present day when a letter found by chance in an antique desk brings one soldier s experience hauntingly to life.
It was in a bad condition but cheap.
It is the story based on the world war i.
Study materials of the best christmas present in the world summary character sketch and word meanings honeydew character sketch jim macpherson.
The best christmas present in the world michael morpurgo.
In this story the author finds a note in an old desk and tries to reach out to its owner mrs.
It was from jim macpherson to his wife connie as written on top.
I spotted it in a junk shop in bridport a roll top desk.
Summary of the best christmas present in the worldthe narrator of the story went to a junk shop and purchased a roll top desk which was in bad condition.
The best christmas present in the world summary in english.
He was the leader of his english troop.
The man said it was early nineteenth century and oak.