A Dublin Christmas - Tapa dura

On the day before Christmas Eve, two children, Niamh and Michel Clery, are accidentally separated from their parents while shopping. They discover a passageway down to Santa's wonderland, which unbeknownst to Dubliners, has been under their city streets since the Ice Age slid the entire North Pole south, millions of years earlier. There, they go on a guided tour of the Wonderland by Santa himself, they discover the 'truth' about various Dublin landmarks, they learn about Santa's amazing network of helpers that help him pull off the 'impossible' and Niamh, with her level-headed computer genius, manages to save Christmas! It is at the end however, that Santa's Magic becomes most apparent, when his gift to the whole family is revealed. With their priorities straight, the Clery family know more than most...that things in life aren't always what they seem to be.

Dan Boyd was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA in 1968 but was raised in north-eastern Ohio. He and his wife Clare have three children and currently reside in Dublin, where Dan works as Centre Director of Stephen's Green Shopping Centre. This is his first book.