Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship

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stars Isabel Vincent is in her forties, with a crumbling marriage, newly employed by Th New York Post and has relocated with her family to New York from Toronto after a career spent primarily as a foreign correspondent.

New to NYC and with a faltering marriage, Isabel received an unusual request from her friend Valerie: Would she look in on Valerie's father, Edward? The book manages to share condensed histories of both Edward and Isabel without delving into too much gratuitous detail.The book jumps around a lot into different moments in time but never really gets into great detail about anything. There were redeeming parts, but in general I wondered who was caring for (comforting)her daughter while she indulged in weekly dinners with the elderly Edward.

When Isabel tells Valerie that things are not going to well in her life either, Valerie suggests that she have dinner with Edward.Both moving and uplifting, Dinner with Edward raises a glass to the power of simple pleasures and the surprising connections formed in times of hardship. The dinners soon turn into a weekly event and a loving friendship that ends up helping both Isabel and Edward lead happier lives.

Vincent began her career in journalism as a correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, from which she covered Latin America and Africa. They also share stories from their past lives, thereby gaining better understanding of where they are today. Read all Dinner with Edward is the story of an unusual friendship between two very different people. Edward knew that Isabel was writing about his life, thereby sharing his stories and outlook more widely. You will absolutely adore the budding friendship between Isabel and the 93 year old Edward who likes to cook for her.She can sing "Girl from Ipanema" in Portuguese, and was the last journalist to interview bossa nova's greatest composer, Antonio Carlos Jobim. Isabel, an investigative journalist, accepts to keep an eye on her best friend’s father, a nonagenarian recently widowed.