COMFORT AND JOY

Book ID/图书代码： 01240005B11709

English Summary/英文概要： In this modern-day fairy tale, New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah gives us a very special gift: the heartwarming story of a woman at a crossroads, caught between two lives, who finds a second chance at happiness.
Joy Candellaro used to love Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, as the holiday approaches, she finds herself at loose ends. Recently divorced and estranged from her sister, she can’t summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. So without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the rural Northwest.
Yet Joy’s best-laid plans go terribly awry. The plane crashes deep in the darkness of a forest. Miraculously, Joy and her fellow passengers walk away from the wreckage as the plane explodes. There, amid the towering trees, Joy makes a bold and desperate decision to leave her ordinary life behind and embark on an adventure . . . just for the holidays.
Daniel O’Shea has returned to the small town of Rain Valley, following the death of his ex-wife. Now he is a single father facing his son’s first Christmas without a mother. Six-year-old Bobby isn’t making it easy–the boy has closed himself off from the world, surrounding himself with imaginary friends.
When Joy and Bobby meet, they form an instant bond. Thrown together by fate, these wounded souls will be touched by the true spirit of Christmas and remember what it means to be a family.
Then a dramatic turn of events shows Joy the price of starting over. On a magical Christmas Eve she will come face-to-face with a startling truth. Now she must decide: In a time of impossible dreams and unexpected chances, can she find the faith to reach for the love she has found . . . and the new life only she believes in?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在本書中，克裡斯丁.漢娜講述了一個溫暖人心的故事：一個女人被兩個生命夾在十字路口，她在努力尋找可以獲得人生樂趣的第二次機會。

耶誕節再次來臨，喬伊卻無心慶祝這個以往最愛的節日。因為她剛剛離了婚，而且和自己的姐妹也早已疏遠。於是，她在沒有告訴任何人的情況下，獨自乘飛機到偏遠的西北部。可是沒想到的是，飛機墜落在大森林之中。喬伊只能和倖存的乘伴苦苦求生。就在此時，她做出一個驚人的決定：她要開始一場探險—一場為慶祝節日而展開的的探險。
Daniel O’Shea在前期死後回到家鄉。這是他第一次帶著失去母親的兒子慶祝聖誕。六歲的鮑比不能釋懷，並陷入自己的幻想世界。喬伊和鮑比第一次見面就立即相互吸引。兩顆受傷的心靈將會被耶誕節真正的含義所感動，而且將會記住家庭的意義。
可是一場戲劇性的轉折讓喬伊明白了從頭開始的代價。而一個神奇的耶誕節前夜，她必須面對一個驚人的事實。現在她必須做出決定：在一個充滿不可能實現夢想和意想不到機會的時刻，她能夠找到信心追尋真愛以及只有她自己相信的新生活嗎？（XMM）

Awards/获奖情况：
From Publishers Weekly
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.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review
: “Happy, hopeful and très romantique.”—Hartford Courant

“[Kristin Hannah’s] best book yet.”—The Columbus Dispatch

“Hannah will touch the deepest corner of your heart.”—Rendezvous

“An engaging holiday tale.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“A heartwarming holiday tale [that] resonates with poignancy and deep emotion.”—Romantic Times

About the Author/作者介绍： 克莉斯丁.漢娜從西亞圖華盛頓大學（University of Washington) 取得學士學位，從普杰沙恩德大學（University of Puget Sound)取得法律學位。當她那長的十分逗人的兒子出世之後，她便放棄了法律事務的工作，專心當一名全職的好媽媽。在那些忙著照顧新生兒的每一個夜晚——無眠但神氣，克莉斯丁.漢娜完成了她的第一本小說。之後她的作品都不斷地獲獎，名列全國暢銷書榜，而她的每一本小說，也都是非常暢銷的。這本夏之島更是深度地感人。她將故事的延展並深入探索出人性的光澤，生動地描繪家人親情，特別是母女關係，成功地傳達出真誠而豐富的情感，使讀者感動並令人永難忘懷。克莉斯丁.漢娜目前跟她親愛的另一半和英俊的兒子，住在西太平洋一座風光明媚的島嶼上。

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