Maddie Please

Maddie Please is the pen name of a British author who writes feel-good fiction celebrating women over sixty finding new adventures, friendships, and romance. Born in Dorset and now living in Devon, she had a career as a dentist before turning to writing. She has become a number one bestselling author with her warm, humorous stories about later-life reinvention. The Dolce Vita Divas follows sixty-four-year-old Joanna Dawson, whose husband has left, whose children have flown the nest, and who finds herself wondering if this is all there is — until her best friend offers her an all-expenses-paid trip to Italy. Please's fiction consistently shows that life doesn't end at sixty; if anything, it's when the real adventures begin. Her other novels continue this theme of women finding unexpected joy and new beginnings in their sixties and beyond. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers uplifting, funny fiction that celebrates a demographic rarely served by popular fiction — stories proving that reinvention, romance, and adventure are available at any age.