Comfort & joy : a novel
When recently divorced Joy Candellaro survives a horrible plane crash, she is given a second chance at happiness when she meets Daniel O'Shea, a single father facing his son's first Christmas without a mother.
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Survival fiction. Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Fiction. |
- ISBN: 0345483677
- ISBN: 9780345483799
- Physical Description 237 pages
- Edition 1st ed.
- Publisher New York : Ballantine Books, [2005]
- Copyright ©2005
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Library Journal Review
Comfort and Joy : A Novel
Library Journal
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Divorced Joy finds comfort in her new hometown, Rain Valley, but still has a crisis on Christmas Eve: Can she really abandon her past? (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publishers Weekly Review
Comfort and Joy : A Novel
Publishers Weekly
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It's the last day before Christmas vacation, and Joy Faith Candellaro, a Bakersfield, Calif., high school librarian, is still fretting over finding her husband, Thom, in bed with her sister, Stacey. Although divorced nearly three months-and urged by everyone to move on with her life-Joy just isn't joyful. She's trying, though: she buys a Christmas tree and plans to get herself something spectacular to put under it. Too bad that Stacey's waiting in her driveway with a wedding invitation and the news that she's pregnant with Thom's child. Enraged and betrayed, Joy drives off-and ends up at the airport, holding a ticket to Hope, Canada. What will she do when she gets there? Who cares? All she knows is that life has to be better elsewhere. What happens next is Hannah's version of a Christmas ghost story, as Joy encounters a father and son whose own misery gives her a new perspective. Hannah (The Things We Do for Love) fans will enjoy this fare, but from the subtle-as-a-50-pound-fruitcake irony of Joy Faith's name to a plot twist that necessitates hanging disbelief on the mantel alongside the Christmas stockings, it may be a bit too much for the more skeptical to swallow. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved