Abstract
The novels of Alice Thomas Ellis1 are much admired, especially in England, where her novel The 27th Kingdom was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker prize. Critics and reviewers have praised her incisive wit, elegant style, and pungent humor. She has been compared to the early Evelyn Waugh and to Muriel Spark. Like them she converted to Catholicism as a young adult; and as in the work of Spark and the American Flannery O’Conner, Ellis’s use of Catholicism in her fiction tends to be oblique, utilizing satire, comic motifs, and symbolic patterns to dramatize larger insights of Catholic theology, rather than fine points of doctrine or piety.2 The Birds of the Air is a Christmas story. In the Victorian era, Christmas stories were a very popular genre of journalistic fiction, Dickens’s A Christmas Carol being the best known example of this
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