Book Description:
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…
My Thoughts:
We meet a great cast of characters in this story but the main ones are Lydia, Daphne, Art and Ziggy of which the chapters alternate between them. I love that the characters range from the age of seventeen to the over seventies and getting to know them all was an absolute delight.
All the characters are different in personalities and lifestyles. They all meet through the local community centre which offers an array of things for the surrounding residents which sadly is under threat of closure. The senior citizen's club get togethers were nothing short of entertaining. It had me not being able to wait until I get to that age as these characters go to show that life is far from over.
Whilst I loved all the characters, Daphne had to be my favourite. She is a dark horse and never failed to surprise me. She is someone that on first meeting, you most certainly wouldn't like but her heart ends up being in the right place and she more than redeems herself throughout. The relationship between her and all the characters was incredibly heartwarming to read.
How to Age Disgracefully is another five star story by Clare Pooley. I adored everything about it. It's the characters and being able to like them in this genre that the author does brilliantly so much so that they all steal a bit of your heart. I didn't want it to end as I so enjoyed being with this great cast. It is full of funny and endearing moments as well as some unexpected ones. A book that fills you with pure joy and a feeling that your heart is about to burst with love!
My thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an advanced readers cop of this book. All opinions are my own and not biased in anyway.
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