Book description
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 dysfunction
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. India
Knight is the author of two previous novels: My Life on a Plate and
Don't You Want Me. 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 and The Thrift Book. India is a columnist for the Sunday Times
and lives in London with her three children.
