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How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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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...

©2024 Clare Pooley (P)2024 Penguin Audio City Life Family Life Friendship Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban
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This was a lovely ready. Good narration and a great mix of characters and ages. Would definitely recommend.

The wonderful characters and humour.

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I loved this beautiful story so reflective of live. So many times I spoken to people older than me and their stories are always fascinating and so special that even as old as they are they are still the unsure kids they were so many years before. They are real.

The character of the ‘oldies’

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A light and joyful story, with humour and depth. Lovely narration as well. Thank you!

Great story and characters

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