Home For Christmas

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Home For Christmas (1937) by Lloyd C. Douglas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

My copy has a name written on the flyleaf, Pearl E. Wist. It was published by Grossett & Dunlap.

At 118 pages, this delightful book is a story of a group of adult siblings who gather in their childhood home for Christmas festivities. Things are to be just as they were when they were children, and they are to have an old-fashioned Christmas. Nan has been looking after the childhood home for years since their parents died, and they hadn’t been all together in one room since. That was 9 years ago, and it’s high time they’d remedied the situation.

At first, Gertrude wasn’t thrilled about the idea of going rustic and trudging through snow, and she didn’t think her siblings could go through with it, either. Each one of them have been successful in life and are far removed from the country ways of their childhood. She decides to go, anyway, however, and sends her husband off to Bermuda and her college age daughter Miriam off to a friend’s place.

Everything goes better than Gertrude expected, and one of her brothers even falls into the old habit of calling on the neighbor girl, Jean, who is now widowed. It is just the siblings until Gertrude gets word that her daughter’s friend who she was to be staying with, has become ill, and Mariam must be sent home. With nowhere else to go, Miriam must come back to her mother.

She joins the family, and the next day is Christmas when all their old friends come to the house for a big party. There is a performance and everything! Everyone has a great time. There is also a sweet little budding romance that happens between Miriam and a man named Jack who is fresh home from college.

My summary doesn’t really do the niceness of the book justice, though. It’s a really heartwarming little story about going home for the holidays and recapturing that innocence of traditional childhood Christmas.

It’s a festive book, and I’d recommend reading it beside the lit tree on a cold night with the windows open. 🙂

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