Family Drama · fiction
The Christmas They Learned to Keep
The first thing I remembered was the sound. Not Lily crying. Not the gasps from the politicians seated beneath the crystal chandeliers. Not the string quartet stopping so suddenly that the final violin note seemed to hang in the air like a warning. The slap. It cracked through Patricia Whitmore’s enormous dining room so...
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- Genre
- Family Drama
- Audience
- Adult readers
- Chapters
- 6
- Fiction status
- fiction
- Editorial responsibility
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