Comfort and Joy / Magic Hour / Firefly Lane

by Kristin Hannah, Various (Reader)

Comfort and Joy: 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. 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 walks away from the wreckage as the plane explodes. She makes a bold and desperate decision to leave her ordinary life behind and embark on an adventure . . . just for the holidays. Magic Hour: Until recently, Dr. Julia Cates was one of the preeminent child psychiatrists in the country, but a scandal shattered her confidence, ruined her career, and made her a media target. When she gets a desperate call from her estranged sister, Ellie, she jumps at the chance to escape. In Rain Valley, nothing much ever happens ? until a girl emerges from the deep woods and walks into town. The ordeal that follows will test the limits of Julia's faith, forgiveness, and love. Firefly Lane: Spanning more than three decades, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the mainstay of their lives. Tully will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success...and loneliness. All Kate really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her...

Genres: Ebooks

Audio CD

First published July 29, 2009

About the author

Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. It was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, Buzzfeed, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. In 2018,

The Great Alone became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller and was named the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads.

The Four Winds was published in February of 2021 and immediately hit #1 on the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstore's bestseller lists. Additionally, it was selected as a book club pick by the both Today Show and The Book Of the Month club, which named it the best book of 2021.

Firefly Lane, her beloved novel about two best friends, was the #1 Netflix series around the world, in the week it came out. The popular tv show stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke and Season Two is currently set to conclude the series on April 27, 2023.

Her new novel, The Women, about a young woman coming of age during the turbulent 1960's in America, who joins the Army Nurse Corps and serves in Vietnam will be published February 6th, 2024.

A former attorney, Kristin lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Reviews

[Elaine Henderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always a good read ! Better yet available at the library. Could read her books again and again. These are kind of long so definitely not a day or so. They have depth which makes her characters believable .

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Comfort and Joy super easy quaint good read!
Read in a day at the beach ! About finding a way of letting go, opening up, forgiving and loving again !

[Jennifer Condin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this book about lost love and finding hope with a little magic.

[Gloria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just read Comfort and Joy, don't know why the trilogy is the only thing that shows up. Delightful story that makes us all believe in magic.

[Roxie Flicek · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read Comfort & Joy: stupid, sappy

[Marc · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know it’s hard to swallow, but I’m sometimes a sucker when it comes to unbelievable plot lines in a story. This was one of them, but I went along regardless. When Joy escapes reality to jump on a plane to who knows where, the plane crashes. She miraculously survives and walks away till she comes across a fishing lodge and meets a boy and his dad. But wait...it was all a dream (well, the crash was real) when she wakes up from a coma in the hospital. Difficult to separate reality from fantasy but it ties up nicely in the end.

[Sonia Knippshild · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love her books!

[Liz Michaels · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75 A mixture of romance, ghost story, and ? It was still a good read, though I found the ending confusing.

[Jeanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Magic Hour & Firefly Lane - great. Comfort and Joy not so much - good detail....too much of a stretch for the ending.

[Colleen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Super fun to experience the dramatic improvement from this novel to Kristen Hannah's writings today.

[Meg Preston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read- a perfect Christmas book. Believe in Christmas magic!

[Joyce Seger · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a wonderful story ! I am hooked on Kristin Hannah books!!

[Julie Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and unexpected story. The ending was a little too unrealistic for my taste. It was a good pleasure read.

[Marilynne Dailer · Rating 5 out of 5]

That’s what I could read and a sweet story with fantasy involved. A great Christmas edition to my reading list.

[Sandy Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book if you finish it. I thought it was kinda corny at first but liked the way it ended.

[Stacey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love her books

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am reading Comfort and Joy now, both Magic Hour and Fire Fly Lane are really good books!

[Otto Meilick]

"Comfort and Joy" is a unique type or romance and while it doesn't quite work in the end, Kristen Hannah deserves a lot of credit for attempting it. A good read for the beach and afternoon.

[Michelle Ryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite authors!!

[Susan Wheeler chalker · Rating 4 out of 5]

her books are always a good read...

[Angela Nicholson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I listened to the audio book and it was not awesome. Fun story, not great inflection.

[Siri · Rating 3 out of 5]

First half ho hum, second half really?

[Cindy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bookclub book

[Sylvia · Rating 5 out of 5]

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