01663cam a2200325 i 4500 262298345 TxAuBib 20160518120000.0 160415s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2016011700 9780778319337 0778319334 (OCoLC)946744227 TxAuBib rda Patrick, Phaedra. The curious charms of Arthur Pepper / Phaedra Patrick. Don Mills, Ontario : Mira, [2016] ℗2016. 331 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier 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. But on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes. Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. What follows is a surprising and unforgettable odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they met--a journey that leads him to find hope, healing, and self-discovery in the most unexpected places. 20160518. Widowers Fiction. Self-realization Fiction.