Keeping Christmas

In No Holly, No Ivy with her children grown and scattered for the first time since her husband's death four years ago, Loraine is preparing to spend her first Christmas alone. Trying desperately to convince herself that she is happy with the situation—no baking, no shopping, no wrapping, no staying up all night to complete last-minute tasks—she settles in to enjoy the peace and solitude, with the birds at the bird feeder her only guests and her cat Tigger her only company.
Her Christmas Eve ...