How to Age Disgracefully
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Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind' - Ruth Jones
When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide. Daphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention – something she’s happy to exploit to help her hide a somewhat chequered past.
But finding herself alone on her 70th birthday, with only her plants to talk to and neighbours to stalk online, she decides she needs some friends. Joining a Senior Citizen's Social Club she’s horrified at the expectation she’ll spend her time enduring gentle crafting activities. Thankfully, the other members – including a failed actor addicted to shoplifting and a prolific yarn-bomber – agree.
After a tragic accident, the local council threaten to close the club – but they have underestimated the wrong group of pensioners...and with the help of a teenage dad and a geriatric, orphaned dog, the incongruous gang set out to prove it.
As long as their pasts don't catch up with them first…
CONTRIBUTORS: Clare Pooley
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Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer.
Clare’s memoir - The Sober Diaries - has helped thousands of people worldwide to quit drinking.
Clare’s first novel - The Authenticity Project - was a BBC Radio 2 Bookclub pick, a New York Times Bestseller and the winner of the RNA debut novel award. It has been translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, The People on Platform 5 (titled Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting in the USA) was published in 2022, and How to Age Disgracefully is out in June 2024. Clare lives in London and Cornwall with her long-suffering husband, three children and two border terriers. When she's not writing, you'll find her cooking, at the theatre, walking the South-West cliff path or wild swimming on the North Cornish coast.
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Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind' - Ruth Jones
When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide. Daphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention – something she’s happy to exploit to help her hide a somewhat chequered past.
But finding herself alone on her 70th birthday, with only her plants to talk to and neighbours to stalk online, she decides she needs some friends. Joining a Senior Citizen's Social Club she’s horrified at the expectation she’ll spend her time enduring gentle crafting activities. Thankfully, the other members – including a failed actor addicted to shoplifting and a prolific yarn-bomber – agree.
After a tragic accident, the local council threaten to close the club – but they have underestimated the wrong group of pensioners...and with the help of a teenage dad and a geriatric, orphaned dog, the incongruous gang set out to prove it.
As long as their pasts don't catch up with them first…
CONTRIBUTORS: Clare Pooley
EAN: 9781787637153
COUNTRY:
PAGES: 368
WEIGHT:
HEIGHT:
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Random House
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE:
WIDTH:
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Clare Pooley graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge and spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer.
Clare’s memoir - The Sober Diaries - has helped thousands of people worldwide to quit drinking.
Clare’s first novel - The Authenticity Project - was a BBC Radio 2 Bookclub pick, a New York Times Bestseller and the winner of the RNA debut novel award. It has been translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, The People on Platform 5 (titled Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting in the USA) was published in 2022, and How to Age Disgracefully is out in June 2024. Clare lives in London and Cornwall with her long-suffering husband, three children and two border terriers. When she's not writing, you'll find her cooking, at the theatre, walking the South-West cliff path or wild swimming on the North Cornish coast.
