Christmas in Prague. Joyce Hannam

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      Christmas in Prague

      СHRISTMAS IN PRAGUE

      Do you know everything about your family – your parents, your grandparents, your brothers or sisters, your uncles or aunts? Does your family know everything about you? All families have secrets – they can be big secrets, small secrets, things to laugh about, things to cry about.

      Jan lives in Oxford with his English wife Carol, and his father Josef, who is Czech. Jan was born in Prague, but he came to England with his father when he was a baby. He never knew his mother – she died soon after he was born. And he knows nothing about her because his father never talks about her. But Josef still carries a photograph of his wife in his pocket – after all these years.

      Carol plays the harp in an orchestra, and the orchestra is giving some concerts in Prague at Christmas. Carol wants to go, and she wants Jan and Josef to go too. ‘Prague is a wonderful place,’ she says, ‘for a family Christmas.’

      But there are family secrets waiting for them in Prague – wonderful secrets, happy secrets, and very sad secrets …

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