Ford McKinney leads a charmed life: he's a young doctor possessing good looks, good breeding, and money. He comes from an old Savannah family where his parents, attentive to his future, focus their energies on finding their son--their golden boy--a girl to marry. But how charmed is this life when Fo
Comfort and Joy
β Scribed by India Knight
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2010;2011
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 151 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Bestselling writer India Knight explores the inevitable panic that family and Christmas bring in her side-splittingly funny and honest novel Comfort and Joy.
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'I'd say Christmas was about hope. Yeah. Hope. And optimism. It's like the fairy tales in the window: for families, every Christmas is a new opportunity for Happy Ever After. No pressure, then...'
Oxford Street, two shopping days left to Christmas, and wife and mum Clara Dunphy is desperately, madly trying to make everything, not perfect, but just right for her extended family on the greatest day of the year. But then she gets distracted. . .
'Will make you laugh, maybe make you cry and keep you reading past bedtime' Lauren Laverne, Grazia
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'A hilarious, bawdy, yet touching portrait of Christmas' Jilly Cooper,Guardian
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'Hilarious and honest; the dialogue is sitcom-snappy and the opening scenes in...
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