#Review #NetGalley #HowToAgeDisgracefully
Publication Date: 20th June 2024
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…
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My Review
I loved this book! It was such a heart-warming read featuring so many different characters from all walks of life. The storyline focusses around a local community centre and neighbouring nursery which is threatened with closure. We get to meet some wonderful characters in this book and they will all capture your heart from the very beginning. They are all different ages and social circumstances, and they all have their own individual issues or problems which are revealed as their stories move on.
The main storyline flows along so well and I really enjoyed the community rallying round together to save their local services. I also loved the individual side stories for the main characters, who were all so likeable! Whilst I liked them all, I have to admit that Daphne and Art were my favourite, with little Lucky coming a close second! The story is told from the perspectives of the different characters and their own individual storylines worked well. It is such a feel-good book with lots of fun and laughs, but it also had lots of emotional and tender moments which tugged at my heartstrings.
It was such a wonderful read which will appeal to many! The author does a great job of including topics which are easily relatable, and it was great to see how all the characters lives eventually work out. Like the author's other books, this is a definite must-read! Would recommend!
The Author
Clare Pooley graduated from Cambridge University, and then spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising before becoming a full-time writer. Her debut novel, The Authenticity Project, was a New York Times bestseller, and has been translated into twenty-nine languages. Pooley lives in Fulham, London, with her husband, three children, and two border terriers. Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting was her second novel, and How to Age Disgracefully is her third novel.
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