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Average rating4.2
Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows is a surprising and unforgettable odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they met--a journey that leads him to find hope, healing, and self-discovery in the most unexpected places.
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Nice little fiction book. Not as fluffy as others that I've read. That was refreshing. A good break from all the other books I've been reading.
Another book to satisfy me while I'm in light reading mode–Arthur Pepper fits in well with the happy folks in Laurie Colwin novels. I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. It's a little predictable, but well-written, and the quirky characters are not annoyingly so.
Next, Knausgaard #4, which I'm betting will not be so light at all.
This had all kinds of alarm bells of “it will be a rip off of Harold Fry or Captain Pettigrew “ two other very similar “elderly men coming of age” in gentle middle class England. But it does work on its own merits. Yes it covers all the expected chestnuts in therms of characters but it was a perfect book to listen to on a long car journey
A wonderful book about family, love, grief, and adventure. A happy book.