{"product_id":"frances-itani-the-company-we-keep-9781443457538","title":"The Company We Keep","description":"On Tuesday nights in\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthe backroom of Cassie’s café, six strangers seek solace and find\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthemselves part of a “Company of Good Cheer”\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHazzley is at loose ends, even three years after the death of her husband.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen her longtime friend Cassandra, café owner and occasional dance-class\n\u003cbr\u003e\npartner, suggests that she start up a conversation group, Hazzley posts a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nnotice on the community board at the local grocery store. Four people turn up\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfor the first meeting: Gwen, a recently widowed retiree in her early sixties,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwho finds herself pet-sitting a cantankerous parrot; Chiyo, a forty-year-old\n\u003cbr\u003e\nfitness instructor who cared for her unyielding but gossip-loving mother\n\u003cbr\u003e\nthrough the final days of her life; Addie, a woman pre-emptively grieving a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nclose friend who is seriously ill; and Tom, an antiques dealer and amateur poet\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwho, deprived of home baking since becoming a widower, comes to the first\n\u003cbr\u003e\nmeeting hoping cake will be served. Before long, they are joined by Allam, a\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSyrian refugee with his own story to tell.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThese six strangers are learning that beginnings can be possible at any\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstage of life. But as they tell their stories, they must navigate\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwhat is shared and what is withheld. Which version of the truth will be revealed? Who is\n\u003cbr\u003e\nprepared to step up when help is needed? This moving, funny and deeply\n\u003cbr\u003e\nempathic new novel from acclaimed author Frances Itani reminds us that life,\n\u003cbr\u003e\nwith all its twists and turns, never loses its capacity to surprise.","brand":"HarperCollins Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53915063746902,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/frances-itani-the-company-we-keep-9781443457538","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}