Mira Books</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><b>"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul. Eccentric?? charming?? and wise??The Curious Charms is not just for those who are mourning over love or the past. This book will illuminate your heart."Nina George?? New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop</b></br></br>Don??t miss this curiously charming debut! In this hauntingly beautiful story of love?? loneliness and self-discovery?? an endearing widower embark"a life-changing adventure.</br></br>Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m.?? just as he did when his wife?? Miriam?? was alive. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest?? waters his fern?? Frederica?? and heads out to his garden.</br></br>But on the one-year anniversar