Comfort and Joy

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Synopsis
It's December 23rd and Clara, nee Hutt, is running around Oxford Street like a blue-arsed fly trying to buy presents. She wants to make Christmas perfect: it's a lifelong ambition. And a challenging one at the best of times, even without taking her fifteen guests - sorry, 'loved ones' - and their varying degrees of social disfunction into account. Meanwhile, something weird has happened to her marriage, and the ho, ho, ho is thin on the ground. Why does Christmas have such an emotional hold over us? Why does family stuff hit the peak of its madness on December the 25th? And is it okay to want more than you have, when what you have seems so enviable from the outside?A blackly funny, tender dissection of the meaning of love – family love, sibling love, children love – Comfort and Joy will make you laugh and cry. 'Comfort & Joy is that most precious of things: a new book that has becomer an instant comfort read, and a complete and utter joy. ' The Lady 'A book so kindly and funny and affectionate that you could probably warm your hands on it. ' Spectator 'Laugh-out-loud funny, moving and as cuddly as Santa Claus, this is perfect for snuggling up with over the Christmas holidays. ' Cosmopolitan 'A wickedly funny, painfully honest look at families, festivities and romantic love. ' Marie Claire 'Oh holy knight . . . Whether your counting the sleeps until Santa, or dreading the whole shebang, it'll make you laugh, maybe make you cry and keep you reading past bedtime . . . ' Grazia 'Clara's a smart woman, and her insights on her family, her guests and her own life are witty enough to make you laugh out loud. ' Psychologies
Copyright:
2010

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781101552711
Publisher:
PENGUIN group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
India Knight, 2
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Humor
Grade Levels:
Twelfth grade
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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