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Comfort and Joy
- Narrated by: Lucy Brown
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of India Knight's darkly comic Comfort and Joy. Read with humour and sensitivity by Lucy Brown, the star of the hit show Primeval.
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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- Simon Bayliss
- 08-12-23
Painfully smug
Performance helps, but the story is so smugly virtue signalling it makes for a grating listen.
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- Denise McLaughlin
- 28-10-15
Why all the bad language?
The story is good, but I feel it is not enhanced by such frequent use of swear words. I am far from being a prude and I think the younger generation feel they invented these words - wrong! Use of profanity is ok if it enhances the story, but over use detracts from it and some are used to shock.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-12-23
A little bit too twee
Too twee for me with a cute story line and a Disney happy ending.
If you like simple with a woman explaining how much she loves her family & friends this is the book for you
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- Kaz
- 11-02-22
Comfortable and joyous
It’s a little pretentious but it’s funny and heart warming. A happy read and Christmassy.
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- simon
- 05-01-22
annoying
there are some genuinely funny moments, and a couple of good anthropological observations, but the characters and narrator are so smug that i struggled through this book
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- London Girl
- 15-04-15
Enjoyable story, excellently read!
Really enjoyed this- and it wasn't even Christmas! Very well read including most of the accents, and good fun to listen to.
Maybe more of a girls story, but not chick lit. Worth the listen!
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