Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper cover

Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

by Phaedra Patrick

Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper 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, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before among Miriam's possessions. He embarks on an odyssey to find out the truth about his wife's life before they met. It takes him from London to Paris and India, on a journey that leads him to find hope, healing, and self-discovery in the most unexpected places.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?