Christmas, Present - Hardcover

Mitchard, Jacquelyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060565578 ISBN 13: 9780060565572

Publisher: Harper, 2003

Synopsis

When Elliot and Laura Banner learn that Laura has a terminal condition, they gather their children and family around themselves during the holiday season to convey her blessings to them for the future and remember their shared history. 125,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A fourteenth wedding anniversary is nothing tosneeze at, Elliott Banner knows, but it's not a land-mark year, like twenty, when he'll take his wife, Laura, to Paris. But when a headache on the drive home from their anniversary date -- two days before Christmas -- turns out to be more than a migraine, he wishes he had celebrated every year as though it were their last.

In this poignant, uplifting story, a woman calmly gathers her family around her to celebrate their lives together and to count their blessings.

A family history unfolds in a single night in this deeply affecting story about love, trust, and letting go -- a holiday read that underscores the true meaning of the season.

About the Author:

New York Times bestseller Jacquelyn Mitchard's novels include The Deep End of the Ocean, Twelve Times Blessed, and The Breakdown Lane. She is also the author of The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship, a collection of her newspaper columns. She lives with her husband and six children in Madison, Wisconsin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0060565578
• ISBN 13: 9780060565572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144