Book Cover: Comfort and Joy by India Knight

Posted By Chloe on September 9th, 2010

Author India Knight is back with her third fictional novel this November with her festive title Comfort and Joy. It’s due out on November 25th, and while I’m not keen on the cover, it certainly sounds like a book I would really like to read. Here’s the synopsis:

“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 fifteen guests - sorry, “loved ones” - and their varying degrees of social disfunction 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.”