Comfort and Joy

'Will make you laugh, maybe make you cry and keep you reading past bedtime.' Lauren Laverne, Grazia 'I'd say Christmas was about hope. Yeah. Hope. And optimism. It's like the fairy tales in the window: for families, every Christmas is a new opportunity for Happy Ever After. No pressure, then . . .' Oxford Street, two shopping days left to Christmas, and wife and mum Clara Dunphy is desperately, madly trying to make everything, not perfect, but just right for her extended family on the greatest day of the year. But then she gets distracted . . . 'Riotously high in laughs and glamour.' Independent Books of the Year 'A hilarious, bawdy yet touching portrait of Christmas.' Jilly Cooper Guardian 'Hilarious and honest; the dialogue is sitcom-snappy and the opening scenes in Oxford Street positively Joycean.' Daily Mail