Comfort & Joy is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2005 by Kristin Hannah
Excerpt from The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah copyright © 2014 by Kristin Hannah
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
BALLANTINE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming book The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, to be published by St. Martin’s Press. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hannah, Kristin.
Comfort & joy: a novel / Kristin Hannah.
p. cm.
1. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.—Fiction.
2. Absence and presumption of death—Fiction. 3. Identity
(Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Women—Fiction. I.
Title: Comfort and joy. II. Title.
PS3558.A4763C66 2005 2005048278
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Cover design: Belina Huey
Cover illustration: © Tom Hallman
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