The Company We Keep: A Novel

On Tuesday nights in
the backroom of Cassie’s café, six strangers seek solace and find
themselves part of a “Company of Good Cheer”

Hazzley is at loose ends, even three years after the death of her husband.
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. Four people turn up
for the first meeting: Gwen, a recently widowed retiree in her early ...