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Comfort and Joy

Comfort and Joy

Author(s): India Knight

Location(s): London, Marrakech

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 2009-2011

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It’s two days before Christmas and wife and mother of two, Clara Dunphy, has finally finished her last-minute shopping on Oxford Street. On a whim she decides to treat herself to a champagne cocktail at the Connaught hotel, where she is chatted up by a handsome stranger. This besuited inamorato will be known for the rest of the book as “the man from the Connaught”.

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Clara Dunphy on Oxford Street in London – excellently evocative of Notting Hill and Marrakesh. To be read at Christmas! Definitely. – Sarah Adams –

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