Book Summary and Reviews of Comfort by Ann Hood

Media Reviews

"A loving tribute by turns harrowing and beautiful." - Kirkus Reviews.

"The first six pages of this wrenchingly honest memoir of Hood's daughter's death and its aftermath read like a tightly controlled scream." - Publishers Weekly.

This information about Comfort was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added.

Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published.

Ann Hood Author Biography

Photo: Beowulf Sheehan

Ann Hood is the author of a dozen books of memoir and fiction, including the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most and The Knitting Circle, and editor of the anthologies Knitting Yarns and Knitting Pearls. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York.

Author Interview
Link to Ann Hood's Website

Readers Also Browsed . . .

• My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss
  
• Something, Not Nothing by Sarah Leavitt
  
• Move Like Water by Hannah Stowe
  
• Roman Year by Andre Aciman
  
• Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace
  
• Patriot by Alexei Navalny
  
• What the Taliban Told Me by Ian Fritz
  
• A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit by Noliwe Rooks
  
• Pulling the Chariot of the Sun by Shane McCrae
  
• Waiting for the Monsoon by Rod Nordland
  

more biography/memoir...