Miss Emily in Black Lace - small hardcover book by Australian author Nina Murdoch. Showing its age but delightful to read. 

"A Christmas Tale in which the Heroine is Plain and Perilously near Forty and the Good Fairy has Bushy Eyebrows and Green Eyes”.

Published by Angus & Robertson, Sydney & London, 1939 first edition. 93 pages. 17.5 x 11.5 cm.