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How to Age Disgracefully

By Clare Pooley
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The brand new feel-good novel from the bestselling author of The Authenticity Project and The People on Platform 5 'Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind' - Ruth Jones When age makes you invisible, secrets are easier to hide. Daphne knows that age is... Read More
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The brand new feel-good novel from the bestselling author of The Authenticity Project and The People on Platform 5

'Uplifting, heartwarming and joyful. Restored my faith in humankind' - Ruth Jones

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 attentionβ€”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 membersβ€”including a failed actor addicted to shoplifting and a prolific yarn-bomberβ€”agree.

After a tragic accident, the local council threatens to close the club, but they have underestimated the wrong group of pensioners. 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...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781804992319

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 April 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin (Transworld)

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 263g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

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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