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    Pieces of Happiness: a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate

    Written by Anne Ostby

    Narrated by Jilly Bond

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    A novel of five lifelong friends who, in their sixties, decide to live together on a cocoa farm in Fiji, where they not only start a chocolate business but strengthen their friendships and rediscover themselves.

    "I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset. Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out!"

    When Sina, Maya, Ingrid, and Lisbeth each receive a letter in the mail posing the same question, the answer is obvious. Their old high school friend Kat—Kat the adventurer, Kat who spread her wings and took off as soon as they graduated—has extended the invitation of a lifetime: Come live with me on my cocoa farm in Fiji. Come spend the days eating chocolate and gabbing like teenagers once again, free from men, worries, and cold. Come grow old in paradise, together, as sisters. Who could say no?
         Now in their sixties, the friends have all but resigned themselves to the cards they've been dealt. There's Sina, a single mom with financial woes; gentle Maya who feels the world slipping away from her; Ingrid, the perennial loner; Lisbeth, a woman with a seemingly picture-perfect life; and then Kat, who is recently widowed. As they adjust to their new lives together, the friends are watched over by Ateca, Kat's longtime housekeeper, who oftentimes knows the women better than they know themselves and recognizes them for what they are: like "a necklace made of shells: from the same beach but all of them different." Surrounded by an azure-blue ocean, cocoa trees, and a local culture that is fascinatingly, joyfully alien, the friends find a new purpose in starting a business making chocolate: bittersweet, succulent pieces of happiness.
         A story of love, hope, and chocolate, PIECES OF HAPPINESS will reaffirm your faith in friendship, second chances, and the importance of indulging one's sweet tooth.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9780525499787
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    Pieces of Happiness: a novel of friendship, hope and chocolate
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    Anne Ostby

    Anne Ostby (1958) es una periodista noruega que ha vivido en numerosos países, incluyendo Dinamarca, Malasia, Pakistán, Kazajistán, Irán y Fiji, donde residió cuatro años. Ha escrito siete libros para niños y adolescentes. Ha participado en numerosos proyectos para defender los derechos de las mujeres en todo el mundo. Actualmente vive en Timor Oriental.

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