Christmas at Home : With Rita MacNeil

Share the memories and enjoy a magical Christmas at home with Rita MacNeil

In Christmas at Home with Rita MacNeil, the internationally renowned songwriter, recording artist, performer and television personality shares her most treasured memories of the season. The spirit of Christmas infuses every page as Rita reminisces about Big Pond, listens to Christmas hymns at midnight mass and reads "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to her grandchildren.

Here, also, are Rita’s best loved Christmas lyrics, her traditional family recipies and holiday stories that warm the heart. Snapshots of family gatherings, as well as photographs from her Christmas television specials, offer a unique glimpse into a cherished part of Rita’s life.

Christmas at Home with Rita MacNeil brings Rita’s generosity, warmth and inspiration to your family’s Christmas, as she shares with you her special holdiay memories as a child, as a mother and now as a grandmother.

This book includes a special holiday gift – an exclusive CD from Rita MacNeil featuring ten new Christmas recordings.

Rita MacNeil has achieved international success as a songwriter, vocalist, recording artist, performer and television personality. She released her first album in 1975, and more than a dozen others have followed, many of which have gone double or triple platinum. She is a multiple winner of the Canadian Country Music Awards, the East Coast Music Awards and the Juno Awards. In 1996 she received a Gemini Award for her television show, "Rita and Friends." In 1992 Rita was inducted into the Order of Canada. Her bestselling autobiography, On a Personal Note, was published in 1998. She has a home in Sydney, Nova Scotia, and a beach house in Big Pond, Nova Scotia, where Rita’s Tea Room is a major tourist attraction.