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How to Age Disgracefully
- Author
- Clare Pooley
- Narrator
- Clare Corbett
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 20 June 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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Brought to you by Penguin.
When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide
Lydia imagines her new job running a Senior Citizen's Social Club three afternoons a week will involve drinking tea while playing gentle games of cards, listening to The Beatles and reminiscing about food rationing and The Blitz.
She does not expect to find a failed actor addicted to shoplifting, a woman who's been hiding from a mysterious and very chequered past, and a prolific yarn-bomber. It turns out that their ideas about how to spend their afternoons are very different.
After a tragic accident means the council threatens to sell the community centre, the Social Club, aided by their friends in the nursery next door and a geriatric orphaned dog, set out to save it.
They might not be able to save the hall, but they might just save each other - if their pasts don't catch up with them first...
©2024 Clare Pooley (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind, it’s the perfect book to escape to in these troubled times. So funny, so moving, and so glad I read it.
Ruth Jones
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A feelgood comedy about the perils of underestimating OAPs. Clare Pooley's third novel is an affectionate swipe at ageism - her witty turn of phrase and gloriously British sense of humour makes this a breezily entertaining read, and Daphne is a scurrilous delight
The Times
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How to Age Disgracefully is a celebration of life at every age and stage. I laughed, cried and cheered at this wonderful novel
Jennie Godfrey, Sunday Times bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things
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A warm and uplifting story about making friends, smashing stereotypes and the importance of community - I loved it
Sarah Turner
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Clare Pooley weaves together the most cleverly flawed and lovable characters and then sets them free to prove that we are limitless at any age. How to Age Disgracefully is a love letter to the human spirit
Annabel Monaghan, author of Nora Goes Off Script
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Warm, witty perfection
Good Housekeeping
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Clare Pooley writes the kind of characters that I want to be when I grow up! I laughed such a lot reading this book, even as my heart was breaking. It is another triumph; truthful, insightful and full of joy. I am in love with this book
Jenny Bayliss
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Joyful, life-affirming and full of heart, How to Age Disgracefully is an absolute riot of a read, full of perfectly flawed characters who made me laugh, cry and cheer. . .you'll never look at a septuagenarian the same way again!
Freya Sampson
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A roof-raising triumph! Bursting with heart . . . this is peak Pooley and I loved, loved, LOVED it!
Matt Cain
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Utterly hysterical and full of heart, with hugely loveable characters, a dialogue that had me in stitches and many profound moments. A totally wonderful, spirit-lifting read!
Helly Acton
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Details
- Author
- Clare Pooley
- Narrator
- Clare Corbett
- Duration
- 8 hours 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 June 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529923568
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Family life fiction / Stories about family, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hideLydia imagines her new job running a Senior Citizen's Social Club three afternoons a week will involve drinking tea while playing gentle games of cards, listening to The Beatles and reminiscing about food rationing and The Blitz.She does not expect to find a failed actor addicted to shoplifting, a woman who's been hiding from a mysterious and very chequered past, and a prolific yarn-bomber. It turns out that their ideas about how to spend their afternoons are very different.After a tragic accident means the council threatens to sell the community centre, the Social Club, aided by their friends in the nursery next door and a geriatric orphaned dog, set out to save it.They might not be able to save the hall, but they might just save each other - if their pasts don't catch up with them first...©2024 Clare Pooley (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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