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As each holidays approaches, some revel in welcoming the brand new Year ahead; others quietly mourn the duration of time gone by. "We can't retain days gone by," says Master Quilter Sylvia Compson, "but we can keep the best part of 'Auld Lang Syne' inside our hearts and inside our memories, and we can look forward to the near future with hope and resolve." As Sylvia, a late-in-life newlywed, has discovered, love can enter our lives at any age. Yet before she can truly take pleasure in her present happiness, she must face the sorrow hidden in her past -- her own role in the tragic circumstances that left her estranged from her sister, Claudia, until it was too late to make amends. Vowing not to repeat the mistake with her new daughter-in-law, Amy, who opposed Sylvia's marriage to her father, Andrew, Sylvia must convince Amy that family is more important than pride. As Sylvia takes up a quilt for the season, begun and abandoned over six years, she recalls the brand new Year's Eve festivities of her youth at Elm Creek Manor as an associate of the Bergstrom family. She titles the quilt "New Year's Reflections," after her belief that year-end reflections precede resolutions. The quilt blocks she chooses commemorate the wisdom that nobody can ever be truly alone if she keeps the memory of those she loved and those who loved her alive in her heart. The New Year's Quilt is a novel to take pleasure from today and to treasure anew each holidays.
