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Pieces of happiness, a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate, Anne Ostby ; translated from the Norwegian by Marie Ostby

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Pieces of happiness, a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate, Anne Ostby ; translated from the Norwegian by Marie Ostby

Language

eng

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Literary Form

novels

Main title

Pieces of happiness

Responsibility statement

Anne Ostby ; translated from the Norwegian by Marie Ostby

Sub title

a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate

Summary

When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school girlfriends from their schooldays, inviting them to live with her on a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific, they swap icy pavements and TV dinners for a tropical breeze and an azure-blue ocean. Leaving behind loneliness, dead-end jobs and marriages that have gone sour, they settle into the Women's House, surrounded by palms and cocoa trees; and locals with the puzzling habit of exploding into laughter for no discernible reason. Each of the women has her issues to resolve, and secrets to keep. But together the friends find a new purpose, starting a business making chocolate: bittersweet, succulent pieces of happiness. As they embrace a new culture that views ageing so differently from their own, will they learn to accept and forgive: to discover the value of friendship, and a better way to live?

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