{"product_id":"how-to-age-disgracefully-by-clare-pooley-9780143137948","title":"How to Age Disgracefully","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“An uproarious romp!” —\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Pooley weaves together the most cleverly flawed and lovable characters and then sets them free to prove that we are limitless at any age.” —Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSummer Romance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA senior citizens’ centre and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author Clare Pooley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac, to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades, to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the city council threatens to sell the doomed community centre building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397874696428,"sku":"9780143137948","price":49.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26181463482238.jpg?v=1773729507","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/how-to-age-disgracefully-by-clare-pooley-9780143137948","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}