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Penguin
October 2011
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Featuring: Clara Dunphy
240 pages ISBN: 0143119818 EAN: 9780143119814 Kindle: B005ERIIYO Paperback / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
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.
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