Christmas Magic

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Cathy Kelly. Christmas Magic

CATHY KELLY. Christmas Magic

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Christmas Magic

Anniversary Waltz

Madame Lucia

Off Your Trolley

May You Live in Interesting Times

A Villa by the Sea

The Gap Year

Cassandra

Letter from Chicago

Bride and Doom

You’ve Got Mail

Christmas Post

The Trouble with Mother

The Paradise Road Book Club

The Angel Gabrielle

Lizzie’s Fling

Thelma, Louise and the Lurve Gods

The Office Christmas Party

A Family Christmas

Afterword

Stories previously published

About the Author

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For Dylan, Murray, Laura, Naomi, Emer and Robert, with all my love

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Ben had felt a frisson of fear then at her utter confidence: there were no guarantees in life or in fertility treatment. Nobody knew for sure. They might spend every penny they had and end up with nothing. But he couldn’t explain this to Lori. It was as if she was living for this dream and without it, she’d crumble. He was worried enough about her as it was.

She was drinking more and more to help her cope with it all and a longer commute meant, Ben hoped, that Lori would no longer be able to party with her colleagues from work. Partying meant drinking, and while Ben could understand his wife’s need to numb her pain with a couple of glasses of wine, she was going out more and more since the failure of the last cycle. And drinking more and more too.

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