When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely illtempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difficult demands of the woodcarver#39s ability, and as Christmas approaches, the three struggle to come to terms with each other, their painful memories and the process of putting their unhappiness behind them
Written by Anonymous
