Comfort and Joy

Name: Comfort and Joy
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2 (2 reviews)
Author: India Knight
ISBN: 9781455121816

Author: India Knight

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 09/27/2011

Categories: Fiction, Humorous

Synopsis

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.

About India Knight

India Knight is the author of four novels: Mutton, Comfort and Joy, Don't You Want Me? and My Life on a Plate. Her non-fiction books include The Shops, the bestselling diet book Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet, the accompanying bestselling cookbook Neris and India's Idiot-Proof Diet Cookbook, The Thrift Book, In Your Prime and The Goodness of Dogs. India is a columnist for the Sunday Times and lives in Suffolk with her partner and three children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Beth

I was going with one star until the quite moving ending. My main problem with C+J is familiarity with the author. Not personal familiarity, but in that I used to read her column every single week and I'm familiar with her life story. This leads me to conclude that Clara Dunphy is one of the most obvi......more

Goodreads review by Anne

I kept getting strange looks from Martin as I was reading India Knight's 'Comfort and Joy', because of the snorts of laughter that kept coming from my direction. Not lady-like, gentle little snorts, but great big loud honking snorts! First of all, you really need to 'get' India Knight's style of hum......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

I thought this book would be a light and heart-warming Christmas read. Instead, I was met with unrelatable characters and a disorganized plot. Unlike other works of fiction I read, this book offered me zero emotional attachments to its characters. Instead, it is about a bunch of wealthy people who h......more