Marmotte's Journey: to freedom

Three weeks until Christmas. Her neighbours either stalk her or flood her, her paperboy courts her non-existent progeny, her work colleagues' lives are in meltdown and her shoulder devil is about to be ordained. But Marmotte is mainly fretting about losing her husband-to-be to his MBA in Singapore. Except her boss has asked her to write a piece on his wife she hates, and spending time with her is changing her. And then there's also the mystery man in the coffee shop...