Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

Lorna Landvik

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English

Bantam
01 July 2004

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The NEW YORK TIMES bestseller - a thoroughly engaging chronicle of friendship and the substantive place it holds in women's lives

Sometimes life is like a bad waiter - it serves you exactly what you don't want. The women of Freesia Court have come together at life's table, fully convinced that there is nothing that good coffee, delectable desserts and a strong shoulder can't fix. Laughter is the glue that holds them together - the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons) - an unofficial club that becomes a lifeline.

The five women each have a story to tell. There's Faith, the newcomer, a housewife and mother who harbours a terrible secret; big, beautiful Audrey, the resident sex queen who knows that with good posture and attitude you can get away with anything; Merit, the shy doctor's wife with the face of an angel and the private hell of an abusive husband; Kari, a wise woman with a wonderful laugh who knows that the greatest gifts appear after life's fiercest storms; and finally, Slip, activist and adventurer, a tiny spitfire who looks trouble straight in the eye and challenges it to arm wrestle.

Holding on through forty eventful years - through the swinging Sixties, the turbulent Seventies, the anything-goes Eighties, the nothing's-impossible Nineties, to the present day - they take the plunge into the chaos that inevitably comes to those with the temerity to stay alive and kicking.

By: Lorna Landvik
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 353g
ISBN: 9780553816419
ISBN 10: 0553816411
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 01 July 2004
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lorna Landvik is the bestselling author of Patty Jane's House Of Curl, Your Oasis On Flame Lake, The Tall Pine Polka and Welcome To The Great Mysterious. She is also an actor and playwright.

Reviews for Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

From the title onwards, this has DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD written all over it. It works -- MIRROR A love for books and a zest for life bring together five women in a lively story as delectable as a five-pound box of chocolates -- ANNE LECLAIRE This book deserves to be read on the strength of its title alone. Spanning 40 years, from the swinging 60s up to the 90s, this is a big-hearted slice of life that's forever teetering between tears and laughter -- MAIL ON SUNDAY