Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower & cynical troublemaker He has lived his whole life by his own rules & has no intention of changing now Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana he spends his days avoiding the old cat lady next door & screening calls from his children But when the enigmatic Emma moves in next door with her strange & sinister husband Cesare suspects there is more to their relationship than meets the eye He enlists the other residents to help him investigate & soon discovers a new & unexpected sense of purpose that leads him to risk everything for a future he had never thought possible Laced with humour & pathos in equal measure this is a delightful book to savour for young & old alike