The company we keep : a novel / Frances Itani.
Hazzley is at loose ends, even three years after the death of her husband. When her long-time friend Cassandra, café owner and occasional dance-class partner, suggests that she start up a conversation group, Hazzley posts a notice on the community board at the local grocery store. Four people turn up for the first meeting: Gwen, a recently widowed retiree in her early sixties, who finds herself pet-sitting a cantankerous parrot; Chiyo, a forty-year-old fitness instructor who cared for her unyielding but gossip-loving mother through the final days of her life; Addie, a women pre-emptively grieving a close friend who is seriously ill; and Tom, an antique dealer and amateur poet who, deprived of home baking since becoming a widower, comes to the first meeting hoping cake will be served. Before long, they are joined by Allam, a Syrian refugee with his own story to tell. These six strangers are learning that new beginnings are always possible.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781443457538 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Broadway Library | PS 8567 T35 C66 2020 (Text) | 33109010376002 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |