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- English
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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
‘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
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Chapter One: Cesare Annunziata
- Chapter Two: What you Need to Know
- Chapter Three: Only One Thing Divides us
- Chapter Four: The Cat Lady
- Chapter Five: Two Circus Performers
- Chapter Six: Soya Burgers
- Chapter Seven: I was Born Sweet and I will Die Grumpy
- Chapter Eight: The Things Not Done
- Chapter Nine: No One can be Saved If they Don’t Want to Be
- Chapter Ten: The First of Three Unattainable Women
- Chapter Eleven: Emma
- Chapter Twelve: Superman in a Skirt
- Chapter Thirteen: I have Failed
- Chapter Fourteen: The Mind
- Chapter Fifteen: Hamburger with Provolone
- Chapter Sixteen: There are Two of Us
- Chapter Seventeen: I’d Like to be an Orc
- Chapter Eighteen: The Second of Three Unattainable Women
- Chapter Nineteen: A Box Room Full of Memories
- Chapter Twenty: A Little Bell Ringing beside Your Ear
- Chapter Twenty-One: In Vino Veritas
- Chapter Twenty-Two: In My Own Way
- Chapter Twenty-Three: An Unstoppable Flow
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Like Clouds
- Chapter Twenty-Five: The Glass Bowl
- Chapter Twenty-Six: ‘The Fifth of May’ from Memory
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Third of Three Unattainable Women
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Unforeseen Hypothesis
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: I Like
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright