The Christmas shoes
Book • 2001
The Christmas Shoes follows two contrasting families during the Christmas season.
Robert Layton is a successful but spiritually impoverished attorney on the brink of divorce, while eight-year-old Nathan Andrews faces his mother Maggie's terminal cancer diagnosis.
When Robert encounters Nathan trying to buy shoes for his dying mother as a Christmas gift, a transformative moment occurs that changes both their lives forever.
Through this intersection of material wealth and spiritual poverty, the novel explores how the smallest gestures can reveal life's most important lessons.
Robert Layton is a successful but spiritually impoverished attorney on the brink of divorce, while eight-year-old Nathan Andrews faces his mother Maggie's terminal cancer diagnosis.
When Robert encounters Nathan trying to buy shoes for his dying mother as a Christmas gift, a transformative moment occurs that changes both their lives forever.
Through this intersection of material wealth and spiritual poverty, the novel explores how the smallest gestures can reveal life's most important lessons.
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