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Penguin
October 2011
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Featuring: Clara Dunphy
240 pages
ISBN: 0143119818
EAN: 9780143119814
Kindle: B005ERIIYO
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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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