![[Avery Partridge.png|400]] the nephew by marriage Bitter. Sneering. Golf shirt and khakis. Avery runs a successful real estate business with his wife, Caroline. He doesn’t have much love for any of the Hawthornes, but he absolutely despises Amelia, who made giving his children the Hawthorne name a condition of getting seed money for the business. Avery is Caroline’s husband, and Everett and Skyler’s father. Quote: “Have you been to Amelia’s horrid Christmas room yet? A candy-colored nightmare. I think she collected all that tacky crap in an effort to somehow own the idea of Christmas, to dominate it.” Hyacinth tries to sneak outside to look around but runs into Avery in the kitchen smoking. She tells him a story to try to warm his heart. [4]