Penguin is pleased to reintroduce readers to "born
storyteller" (The Washington Post) and New York Times
bestselling author Lois Battle and her delightful holiday
tale of Josie Taternall and her South Carolina bed and
breakfast. After her best friend's narrow brush with
death, Josie decides that life is too short to let old
grievances stand in the way of family togetherness. This
year, she resolves, her three grown daughters—the girls
she raised so carefully yet with such mixed results—will
come home for Christmas. With her uncanny ear for Southern
sensibility and her sharp-eyed wit, Battle gives us the
perfect upstairs/downstairs comedy and a portrait of a
family in all its tender, touching, and flawed glory that
readers young and old will cherish.
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