from ReadingGrrl

I loved this book. If you'll excuse the pun it was very charming. This is a book about rediscovering life. Learning how to live again after tragedy and how sometimes the best way to honor someones memory is to experience new things and share your knowledge and past with new people. Wonderfully wr...

from vancouverdeb

Arthur Pepper is a 69 year old widower. He lives a simple, quite regulated life. He arises each morning at 7:30 am, puts on his grey pants, mustard coloured vest and button up shirt that he lays out the night before. He eats breakfasts at precisely 8 am, two pieces of toast with tea, and reluctan...

from ctpress

Book description: Having been married for over 40 years, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper is mourning the loss of his wife, Miriam. One day he finds a charm bracelet that belonged to Miriam. What follows is an adventure that takes Arthur on an quest to find out the truth about the charms - and the truth...

from brokenangelkisses

Are you ready to go on an adventure? 69 year old Yorkshireman Arthur Pepper isn't. Since his wife died exactly one year ago, he's clung to his routines and his house plant like life rafts and gradually lost meaningful contact with his children and the outside world. Then a chance discovery awaken...

from Fliss88

This is a coming of age story with a twist. The twist being, the coming of age person is 70. On the first anniversary of his wife's death Arthur decides it's time to go through her things and get rid of them. Dear old Arthur, that's how I initially saw him, believed he and Miriam were soulmates. ...