Comfort & Joy

ByKristin Hannah

Release Date: 2005-11-01
Genre: Fiction & Literature

Score: 4

From 1,494 Ratings

Description

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Women presents a modern-day fairy tale—the story of a woman who gets a miraculous chance at happiness.

Joy Candellaro once loved Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she is at a crossroads in her life; recently divorced and alone, she can’t summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. So without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the beautiful Pacific Northwest. When an unexpected detour takes her deep into the woods of the Olympic rainforest, Joy makes a bold decision to leave her ordinary life behind—to just walk away—and thus begins an adventure unlike any she could have imagined.

In the small town of Rain Valley, six-year-old Bobby O’Shea is facing his first Christmas without a mother. Unable to handle the loss, Bobby has closed himself off from the world, talking only to his invisible best friend. His father Daniel is beside himself, desperate to help his son cope. Yet when the little boy meets Joy, these two unlikely souls form a deep and powerful bond. In helping Bobby and Daniel heal, Joy finds herself again.

But not everything is as it seems in quiet Rain Valley, and in an instant, Joy’s world is ripped apart, and her heart is broken. On a magical Christmas Eve, a night of impossible dreams and unexpected chances, Joy must find the courage to believe in a love—and a family—that can’t possibly exist, and go in search of what she wants . . . and the new life only she can find.

Reviews

Not a great Kristen Hannah novel. Very disappointed
1
By Svs21365
Not a great Kristen Hannah novel. Very disappointed
Love!
5
By Albd1988
My favorite read of 2025!
Don’t bother
1
By Queen Tammi
A crummy story.
Joy
5
By Softail10
What a great story. Glad I read this at Christmas. It’s a little different, but she does call it a fable. I loved it!
Anything is plausible?
3
By Sheri's ipod
This should be listed as fantasy…. Heartwarming story, but really far fetched.
Just too…
2
By Amigo73
Too corny. She boarded a plane in Bakersfield bound for Canada, and she didn’t need a passport??? Glaring errors like that make me want my money back. This author makes a lot of those, too many in fact.
Comfort and confusing, badly written
1
By NotForMe987654321
Only made it to page 42 before giving up. Husband and Sister are getting married, having a baby, a plane crash, no shoe no sock, runs away from plane crash, finds a diner, then decides to follow a map, I am done. At that point when I have to go back to see if I missed a whole chapter of the story, and I’m still so confused and I admit, bemused by so much happened so quickly, I cannot continue. Very sadly wasted $2.99 on this.
Magic!
5
By kathron0547
I read this from beginning to end without stopping. Profoundly inventive and mystical.
Really 3.5 but for Christmas sake rounding up
4
By arich0815
Love a tale of magic even if this one was a bit slow and predictable.
Loved this book!
5
By JD want a baby!
I’ve never read a book so fast! I couldn’t put this down. What a magical Christmas story. Read it now!