Pieces of Happiness

A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate

Anne Ostby, Marie Ostby

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Norwegian

Black Swan
15 February 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

A warm story of friendship, and starting over- five women, old school friends, who leave the frozen north behind them to start a new life together on a cocoa plantation in Fiji.

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 recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school friends, inviting them to live with her on a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific, they swap icy pavements and TV dinners for a tropical breeze and an azure-blue ocean.

Leaving behind loneliness, dead-end jobs and marriages that have gone sour, they settle into the Women's House, surrounded by palms and cocoa trees; and locals with the puzzling habit of

exploding into laughter for no discernible reason.

Each of the women has her issues to resolve, and secrets to keep.

But together the friends find a new purpose, starting a business making chocolate- bittersweet, succulent pieces of happiness. As they embrace a new culture that views ageing so differently from their own, will they learn to accept and forgive- to discover the value of friendship, and a better way to live?

By: Anne Ostby
Translated by: Marie Ostby
Imprint: Black Swan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 241g
ISBN: 9781784162795
ISBN 10: 1784162795
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 February 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anne Ostby is a journalist and novelist who has lived all over the world, including four years in Fiji. She is the author of a number of novels published in her native Norway, and one other novel published in English, Town of Love. She now lives in East Timor with her husband.

Reviews for Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate

If you loved The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, then Pieces of Happiness should be on your reading list. Five friends in their 60s, all battered by life, seek refuge on Fiji and start a chocolate farm. * Good Housekeeping * This funny, life-affirming novel about friendship and second chances is a wonderful companion for an afternoon in the sun…the Fijian setting is STUNNING. * Saga *