Anne Østby Books

I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out! When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school friends, inviting them to live with her on a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific, they swap icy pavements and TV dinners for a tropical breeze and an azure-blue ocean. Leaving behind loneliness, dead-end jobs and marriages that have gone sour, they settle into the Women's House, surrounded by palms and cocoa trees; and locals with the puzzling habit of exploding into laughter for no discernible reason. Each of the women has her issues to resolve, and secrets to keep. But together the friends find a new purpose, starting a business making chocolate: bittersweet, succulent pieces of happiness. As they embrace a new culture that views ageing so differently from their own, will they learn to accept and forgive: to discover the value of friendship, and a better way to live?

In wenigen Monaten wird Maraia achtzehn. Dann soll sie die Schokoladenmanufaktur übernehmen, die vier Norwegerinnen auf Fidschi gegründet haben. Kat, Ingrid, Sina und Lisbeth haben in Maraias Heimat ihr Paradies gefunden und verbringen hier ihren Lebensabend. Für Maraia sind sie Rückhalt und Familie. Aber kann sie den Traum ihrer Freundinnen zu ihrem eigenen machen? Maraias Herz gehört dem Meer, ihre Sehnsucht dem Ozean. Eine gemeinsame Reise nach Norwegen führt Maraia schließlich in eine ihr völlig fremde Kultur – und weist ihr zugleich den Weg in eine eigene Zukunft.