If you have ever spent Christmas at your grandfather's house, Mark Leever will remind you of those unforgettable times and have you yearning for them again in this beguiling and profoundly moving book. Comprising six stories carefully connected by time (Christmas, 1985), place (the town of Wharton), theme, and character, Christmas at Grandfather's House is a holiday collection unlike any other: it unfolds like a novel. By turns comical, charming, and poignant, each story is a treasure of the heart, combining the childhood miracle that is Grandfather's house, with the miracle of Christmas that makes every one, and everyone who shares it, unique. A man who realizes the enduring value of family in his remembrance of a long-past Christmas Eve . . . A boy and his grandfather who try desperately to save an old woman's life with the most improbable medicine of all . . . A granddaughter who learns that love is expressed in many different ways . . . A woman who will do anything to help a husband being robbed of reality by age, and a man who will do whatever he must to remain in his wife's reality . . . A teenage boy who brightens an Emergency Room . . . And through it all, a town doctor who has devoted his life to the family and friends he loves, while harbouring a dark secret . . . a secret that at last comes to light on a snowy Christmas Day. Written from diverse points of view, Christmas at Grandfather's House weaves readers into that very special fabric of small town life, revealed through the eyes of grandsons and granddaughters, grandfathers and grandmothers, as they give and receive gifts far more precious than anything money can buy. Readers will never think of Christmas the same way again.