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. Written by a Sunday Times columnist, it's a portrait of family Christmases over three years. It’s very astute, a sort of extension of her column, a vehicle to air her views on marriage, child rearing, love, manners and relationships.
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It's December 23rd and Clara Dunphy 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 sixteen 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?
Comfort and Joy features in the following genres: Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction, Recommendations
Comfort and Joy is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Comfort and Joy was written by India Knight and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Comfort and Joy has 288 pages
£14.39
