The 12 Days of Christine Stranger. On Bonfire Night, Christine arrives home with Jack, who has burnt his hand. Marion finds that Jack is not injured, but says that Christine was burnt when she was Jack's age. It is Christmas, and Christine is having dinner with Marion, Ernie, Fung, Bobby and Adam. Christine unwraps her present to find an album of photos from her life. She says that she feels as if her life is flashing before her eyes, and then realises what is happening. Christine sits in a car wreck as emergency services attempt to free her. There are broken eggs from a shopping
Christine Leunens Christine Leunens Christine Leunens is a New Zealand-Belgian novelist. She is the author of "Primordial Soup", "Caging Skies" and "A Can of Sunshine", which have been translated in over fifteen languages. "Caging Skies" has been adapted for film by director Taika Waititi, under the name "Jojo Rabbit". Christine Leunens was born in Hartford, Connecticut on 29 December 1964, the daughter of an Italian mother and a Belgian father, and the grand-daughter of Flemish artist Guillaume Leunens, whose years in a German labour camp in WWII would afterwards influence his abstract metal works. As a young child she travelled between Belgium