Evenings at Five Book

While this may be a little book which is easily read in less than two hours, it manages to convey the importance of living large to the very end. I loved the older couple depicted - artistic, eccentric and vibrant. In life they both adored and exasperated each other, she a writer, he a composer. Every day at 5pm they sat down for a cocktail to discuss their respective days, with him usually carrying on about something or another. Grieving his loss after he's died, she continues their tradition in spite of his empty chair, desk, piano and cocktail glass. It sounds depressing, but it's not. Poignant and sad, of course, but surprisingly funny, too. This is a wonderful little read.