Comfort and Joy

If Bridget Jones had two exhusbands, three children, and invited her entire extended family over for Christmas Its December 23, and Clara Dunphy is running around Oxford Street like a chicken with its head cut off trying to pick up a few lastminute bits and bobs. Despite the frenzy, the twicedivorced mother of three loves Christmas and always wants to make it perfecta challenge even in the best of times but particularly when family means an extended network of inlaws, outlaws, exstepfathers, and hangerson totaling sixteen. Is the madness of Christmas really worth it? Clara is a witty, blackly funny everywoman who will win over anyone who has ever longed to shut out the holidays with a giant martiniand some olives.