The Temptation to Be Happy
eBook - ePub

The Temptation to Be Happy

The International Bestseller

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Temptation to Be Happy

The International Bestseller

About this book

‘Sad, funny, wise and unblinkingly honest, this is truly wonderful.’ Daily Mail

‘I like the smell of pines and the aroma of freshly washed laundry. I like the rattle of hail on windowpanes and the texture of volcanic rock. I like the light in the sky when the sun has gone down.

Cesare is an unlikely hero. As he says himself, ‘I am seventy-seven years old, and for seventy-two years and one hundred and eleven days I threw my life down the toilet...’ Is it too late for him to rediscover his passion for love and life?

Already an international bestseller, The Temptation to Be Happy is a coming-of-age story like no other.

'Immensely charming... Uplifting and very much on the side of life.' Mail on Sunday

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter One: Cesare Annunziata
  5. Chapter Two: What you Need to Know
  6. Chapter Three: Only One Thing Divides us
  7. Chapter Four: The Cat Lady
  8. Chapter Five: Two Circus Performers
  9. Chapter Six: Soya Burgers
  10. Chapter Seven: I was Born Sweet and I will Die Grumpy
  11. Chapter Eight: The Things Not Done
  12. Chapter Nine: No One can be Saved If they Don’t Want to Be
  13. Chapter Ten: The First of Three Unattainable Women
  14. Chapter Eleven: Emma
  15. Chapter Twelve: Superman in a Skirt
  16. Chapter Thirteen: I have Failed
  17. Chapter Fourteen: The Mind
  18. Chapter Fifteen: Hamburger with Provolone
  19. Chapter Sixteen: There are Two of Us
  20. Chapter Seventeen: I’d Like to be an Orc
  21. Chapter Eighteen: The Second of Three Unattainable Women
  22. Chapter Nineteen: A Box Room Full of Memories
  23. Chapter Twenty: A Little Bell Ringing beside Your Ear
  24. Chapter Twenty-One: In Vino Veritas
  25. Chapter Twenty-Two: In My Own Way
  26. Chapter Twenty-Three: An Unstoppable Flow
  27. Chapter Twenty-Four: Like Clouds
  28. Chapter Twenty-Five: The Glass Bowl
  29. Chapter Twenty-Six: ‘The Fifth of May’ from Memory
  30. Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Third of Three Unattainable Women
  31. Chapter Twenty-Eight: Unforeseen Hypothesis
  32. Chapter Twenty-Nine: I Like
  33. Acknowledgements
  34. Copyright