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How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley
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How to Age Disgracefully

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Narrator Clare Corbett

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Length 8 hours 11 minutes
Language English
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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...

ยฉ2024 Clare Pooley (P)2024 Penguin Audio

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.

Audiobook details

Author:

Narrator:
Clare Corbett

ISBN:
9781529923568

Length:
8 hours 11 minutes

Language:
English

Publisher:
Transworld

Publication date:

Edition:
Unabridged

Libro.fm rank:
#32,914 Overall

Genre rank:
#1,963 in Humor

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Reviews

Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind, itโ€™s the perfect book to escape to in these troubled times. So funny, so moving, and so glad I read it. How to Age Disgracefully is a celebration of life at every age and stage. I laughed, cried and cheered at this wonderful novel 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 A warm and uplifting story about making friends, smashing stereotypes and the importance of community - I loved it 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 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 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! A roof-raising triumph! Bursting with heart . . . this is peak Pooley and I loved, loved, LOVED it! 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! Funny, warm, wise and a total riot Expand reviews
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