Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by 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.