As Judy struggles with an empty nest and Becky receives a devastating diagnosis, their friend, widowed Monique, decides it's high time for her to cross every item off her late husband's bucket list. 

Chatelaine book review: Friendship Makes The Heart Grow Fonder by Lisa Verge Higgins

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Kate talks about why happiness is boring and impossible to write about, and why focused on families in her new book. Read part 1 here.

Q&A, Part 2: Kate Atkinson, author of Life After Life

Chatelaine Book Club

Author Jowita Bydlowska shares a moment of when she was a raging alcoholic, struggling to raise a newborn.

Jowita Bydlowska: Confessions of a drunk mom

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Walt and Judy Ribke are devastated to discover they're unable to have a child. Then Walt sees a Life magazine story about chimps learning sign language and decides to adopt  baby chimp Looee. 

Chatelaine book review: A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam

April 2013

When Ben Armstead's dissatisfaction with life leads to a desperate act of infidelity, his wife, Helen must abandon her safe, small-town existence and forge a new path with their sullen preteen daughter in the city. 

Books

Friendship Makes The Heart Grow Fonder by Lisa Verge Higgins

Why our Book Club author thinks happiness is boring

Book Excerpt: My terrible secret: Confessions of a drunk mom

A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam

A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee