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Clare Pooley - How to Age Disgracefully, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

How to Age Disgracefully

Av Clare Pooley

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'Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind' RUTH JONES'A celebration of life at every stage' JENNIE GODFREY''Joyful, life-affirming and full of heart ... an absolute riot of a read' FREYA SAMPSONWhen age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hideDaphne 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…Readers LOVE How to Age Disgracefully:***** 'Surprising, inspiring and hilarious!!'***** 'A breath of fresh air . . . funny and entertaining'***** 'A fantastic read'***** 'If you're looking for a feel-good book, look no further!'***** 'A joyful read from beginning to end'Clare Pooley, The Bookseller bestseller, April 2023
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-06-20
  • Mått: 145 x 223 x 33 mm
  • Vikt: 473 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 368
  • Förlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781787637146
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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 dark but hilarious memoir, The Sober Diaries, has helped thousands of people around the world to quit drinking.The Authenticity Project, Clare's debut novel, was a BBC Radio 2 bookclub pick, a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the RNA debut novel award and a Babelio award. It's been translated into 29 languages.The People on Platform 5 is Clare's second novel, inspired by her fascination with inventing stories about her fellow passengers on her commute to work.Clare lives in Fulham, London with her husband, three children and two border terriers.

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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.

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2 recensioner, genomsnitt 2.5/5

  1. 3/5 Lars S

    Härligt att få läsa om vuxna karaktärer som är sig själva med alla fel och brister - och vanliga mänskliga - och icke-konforma beteenden. Pensionärer som har liv som inte enbart är farföräldrar eller sjukdom. Mer tvärtom.
    Karaktärerna var det som fick mig att fortsätta läsa medan de dramaturgiska inslagen i form av "skoj", kanske av förlaget önskade, gjorde att det blev en mix som inte passade för mig. Inte på grund av humor, utan just för att personerna var så intressanta men som inte fick flyga så högt som de kunnat.

  2. 2/5 Läsare L

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