Read by Anne Flosnik

If Bridget Jones had two ex-husbands, three children, and invited her entire extended family over for Christmas? It's December 23, and Clara Dunphy is running around Oxford Street like a chicken with its head cut off trying to pick up ?a few last-minute bits and bobs.? Despite the frenzy, the twice-divorced mother of three loves Christmas and always wants to make it perfect?a challenge even in the best of times but particularly when ?family? means an extended network of in-laws, out-laws, ex-stepfathers, and hangers-on totaling sixteen. Is the madness of Christmas really worth it? Clara is a witty, blackly funny everywoman who will win over anyone who has ever longed to shut out the holidays with ?a giant martini?and some olives.?

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