内容简介：
Bob and Alf hardly know anything about each other, apart from the fact that they are both eighty years old and are World War II veterans. They also enjoy the pleasures of a home-cooked meal at the Sunny CafA(c), served up by the friendly Maureen. Every day is much the sameaconversation is banal and life pretty mundane. There can be no surprises left in store for a couple of octogenariansaor can there? Well, not until the day when Maureen goes AWOL from the cafA(c). In her place is a bored, but pretty girl by the name of Carol. Something about her seems to stir the deepest corners of Alfas mind, driving Bob half crazy. And so begins their quest. What follows over the next few weeks is a sequence of strange revelationsasome funny, some sad, and some sinistera].