I've always been fascinated by A Christmas Carol. I've seen quite a few adaptations, new takes and I watch the Muppet Christmas Carol nearly every single year and can quote it all the way through. But until now, I've never got round to reading the book.

It turns out that Muppet Christmas Carol is so accurate to the original work, with entire lines from the book used, that I spent the entire novel playing the movie in my head. It was almost too easy to picture Michael Caine's irritated, dismissive voice as he shooed away the charity workers.

There were some differences that I had not seen before, seeing Belle after see rejected him happy at home with her own children was one I particularly liked, and the descriptions of how the poorer Londoners took the clothes off his body added to the eerie, unsettling feeling the story had.