Christmas Cake - (Hope Springs Book) by Lynne Hinton (Paperback)

Christmas Cake is a heartwarming story that celebrates the close and lifelong bonds among women, set in a small fictional Southern community as unforgettable as Jan Karon's Mitford.

With the holiday season drawing near, the ladies of Hope Springs are making plans for a cake cookbook--a project that will hopefully lift the spirits of a beloved member of their close-knit quartet.

But Margaret Peele is downhearted and uninspired now that her cancer has returned.

All she wants this Christmas is to visit her mother's Texas hometown .

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and to see their absent friend, pastor Charlotte Stewart, who left Hope Springs to run a battered women's shelter.

So impulsive Beatrice Newgarden Witherspoon commandeers a very inappropriate--but comfortable--van to transport Margaret, Louise Fisher, and Jessie Jenkins across the country for a Lone Star State reunion with Charlotte.

And over the course of a remarkable journey they will rediscover the greatest Christmas gift of all: eternal friendship.