Comfort and Joy by Kristin Hannah

Wanting to read a book to help put me in the Christmas spirit, I picked this book by an author I have enjoyed before. This is the story of a young woman named Joy.She finds herself not very much in the mood for Christmas because of the difficulties she has experienced over the past year. She not only finds herself separated and divorced, but learns that her sister is now pregnant with her ex's baby. She herself has wanted a child for a long time, but her former husband was never quite ready.
     Joy works as a high school librarian in Bakersfield, California. She has just finished work before the Christmas break. Upon arriving home and finding her pregnant sister with a wedding invitation, she suddenly decides to leave and buys a spur-of-the-moment ticket to Hope, British Columbia..... Not much later the plane has crashed and the wounded Joy walks away into a small town in Washington State. She finds a little place called the Comfort Fishing Lodge, a rundown inn with two people in it who are fighting to survive emotionally. An eight year boy, Bobby, who mother has recently died, and his father Daniel, who hasn't seen the boy much since his divorce, and who is at his wits end as to how to deal with a boy who talks to his dead mother and couple of other invisible people. Joy is able to help the two, spending time with them and becoming close to them. On Christmas Eve they are at a gathering when Joy suddenly blacks out and wakes up in a hospital in Bakersfield.
    Joy is told she has been in a coma for ten days. She is told that her plane crashed 100 miles from where it took off. Join with Joy in puzzling out what actually happened to her. Will she reunite with her sister? What about Bobby and Daniel - do they even exist? Will Joy have the courage to begin a new life?