Before long, they are joined by Allam, a Syrian refugee with his own story to tell. Four people turn up for the first meeting: Gwen, a recently widowed retiree in her early sixties, who finds herself pet-sitting a cantankerous parrot Chiyo, a forty-year-old fitness instructor who cared for her unyielding but gossip-loving mother through the final days of her life Addie, a woman pre-emptively grieving a close friend who is seriously ill and Tom, an antiques dealer and amateur poet who, deprived of home baking since becoming a widower, comes to the first meeting hoping cake will be served. When her longtime friend Cassandra, café owner and occasional dance-class partner, suggests that she start up a conversation group, Hazzley posts a notice on the community board at the local grocery store. Hazzley is at loose ends, even three years after the death of her husband.
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