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How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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Brought to you by Penguin.

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 Feel-Good Funny Heartfelt Witty Thought-Provoking

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This is my first book by Clare Pooley and I have loved every second of it. The individual characters are brilliant and the setting of the story was different and refreshing. I will definitely be reading another book very soon.

I loved Daphine.

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So funny and heartwarming brilliant story and clever
Love this writers work

Charming characters
Daphne …. Her meme 😅

So good

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First book of Clare Pooley’s I’ve read and I’m absolutely hooked. Phenomenal author, highly recommended.

Loved the storyline and different voices!

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Loved this brilliantly funny book by the great Clare Pooley. I think it might be my favourite of her books so far, I simply couldn’t put it down or turn it off… it doesn’t work as a book to nod off to.

Brilliant.

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Although most of the main characters are in their 70’s, the book does have other age groups, ethnicity and is all inclusive. How their lives intertwine makes for compelling reading
Nelson Mandela would approve - Ubuntu a South African word for brotherhood comes to mind

Fun story

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A lot of bits that were believable among the impossible . I wasn’t sure where Lucky came into it but it was good to have a teenage father who learned a few lessons.

Lydia standing up for herself

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I absolutely loved this book. The characters were fully developed, each with a past to explore. This diverse group of individuals were brought together with the united aim to save their local community centre. En route they had their own problems to resolve.
Highly recommended.

Funny, Poignant & Uplifting

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I really hope I get the chance to grow old disgracefully too. Brilliant story. Thank you.

Loved it

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This was an easy listen. It was a good fun story. I did giggle a few times. The characters were sweet but obvious and there were no surprises.

good fun

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I have enjoyed Clares writing since The Sober Diaries, the book that got me sober 6 years ago.

This storyline was fun and engaging and Clares hooks you into the characters lives quickly. find myself recommending to friends

Another triumph

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