Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons

von Lorna Landvik

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.