Merry Christmas: A modern reimagined version of A Christmas Carol

Merry Christmas! A reimagined version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol for the 21st Century. Eddie Scarr, a modern facsimile of Scrooge, is angrier and more damaged than the original, but just as successful in his own milieu. He’ s a Department for Work and Pensions enforcement officer whose sole reason for existing, it seems, is to make life as difficult as possible for would-be benefit fraudsters, and everyone else who crosses his path.

A workaholic, he is driven in pursuit of cheats, even on...