The Hundred Gifts

Authors: Scott, Jennifer
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC044000, FIC045000, FIC058000
ISBN: 9780698184152, Related ISBNs: 0451473248, 0698184157, 9780451473240, 9780698184152
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 368,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: The national bestselling author of The Sister Season shares a new novel about a woman who discovers the spirit of the season is truly in the giving....

With the holidays around the corner, empty-nester Bren Epperson realizes that for the first time in decades, she has no large family to cook for, no celebration to create.  So she starts teaching a holiday cooking class, and it’s a hit—until Virginia Mash, the old lady upstairs, bursts in complaining.  Rather than retaliate, Bren suggests that the class shower Virginia with kindness—and give her one hundred gifts.  So they embark on the plan to lift a heart.  Along the way, amidst the knitting and the making and the baking, they’ll  discover the best gifts can’t be bought and family celebrations can be reborn.

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